Originally a house. 18th century. Later The Shore Inn 18th century. In 1867 vicarage to Church of St. Peter. Hotel at time of survey. Main building Flemish bond brick with pained ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings, and rendered porch sides; left return main building rubble; left additional bany render with brick dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 windows and left addition 2 storeys one window. Right return to North Bridge Street 2 storeys and basement, 5 windows. Rear 3 storeys and 4 windows. U - plan roof. North elevation to Barclay Street has central shallow porch with painted fluted Doric columns supporting plain entablature, sides blocked and rendered; entablature partly obscured by late 20th century signboard and sun canopy; internal steps up to renewed glazed door in surrounds with late 20th century ceramic tiles. Low plinth; ground, first floor and eaves bands; projecting painted quoins. Sashes with glazing bars have flat stone lintels, except second floor windows under eaves, and projecting stone sills; blind windows in third bay; window to left door lost glazing bars. Eaves cornice and blocking course. Hipped roof with truncated central ridge chimney. Right return to North Bridge Street with ashlar basement has 5 windows, all with plain cornices; all windows renewed. Rear elevation has low plinth, floor and eaves bands; door inserted at right; 2 wide ground floor windows, the left blind and the right tripartite with upper glazing bars; upper floors have 4 windows, the two at left blind, renewed casements on first floor and sashes with glazing bars on second floor.

The Wheatsheaf Hotel public house. 1897 - 1898. By S Oswald and Son. For Bell and Taylor. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door architraves; roof of graduated slates with ashlar chimneys. Roughly triangular plan, the W side rounded; classical style. 3 storeys; 4 windows to Roker Avenue, 6 on rounded corner, one wider on Thomas Street North. Rusticated ground floor has doors in 2nd and 6th bays of curved section and in 3rd bay on Roker Avenue; these are 6 - panelled, with plain overlights, in granite architraves with scroll brackets supporting segmental pediment hoods. Ground - floor windows are fixed lights with some opening transom lights, and rusticated voussoirs with triple keys rising through frieze to cornice of ground - floor entablature. Upper floors have bays defined by rusticated pilasters with Ionic capitals supporting big dentilled entablature with WHEAT SHEAF HOTEL incised on frieze in well - cut letters. Sash windows have upper glazing bars, in architraves, those on first floor corniced, with ogee pediments to those above doors and in bay between doors on curve; blind bays on second floor above doors in curve have low - relief carved wheatsheaf. Roof has curved hip over curved end; 3 tall corniced ashlar chimneys. An important building at the junction of 6 roads. (Pearson LF: The Northumbrian Pub: an architectural history: Warkworth: 1989-: 98-99).

House. 18th century. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with painted ashlar dressings; right return rendered; Welsh slate roof with brick chimney. 2 storeys, 2 windows. 4 - panelled door and blocked segmental overlight at right under segmental brick arch. Projecting stone lintels to recessed sashes with fine glazing bars, the lower with flat stone lintels and the upper with thin lintels possibly of painted wood. Eaves gutter brackets, gutter lost. A rare unaltered survivor of early 19th century Monkwearmouth in an area much redeveloped.

Former Presbyterian church now Assemblies of God 'Hebron' (New Scotch Church) with gates attached. 1891 - 1892. By WL Newcombe on site of 1827 Scotch Chapel by John Dobson. Rock faced sandstone with granite shafts and ashlar dressings, quoins and spire. Roof graduated Lakeland slate. Sanctuary and aisled nave with W entrance hall, NW entrance porch and SW tower entrance. Decorated style with perpendicular aisles. EXTERIOR: 5 - light E window, within school attached. Three 3 - light square - headed aisle windows with tracery, and paired 2 - light pointed - arch clerestory windows with dripstring. W front to street has N door under parapet to N aisle, S door in buttressed tower, both moulded with 2 orders of granite nook - shafts, central gabled projecting niche rises from high plinth continuous with tower buttress and N porch projection, below 2 tall 3 - light windows with sill and drip strings. Vesica in gable, 5 small stepped lights, outer ones blind, in gable peak. Tower has high second stage with small 2 - light window below and paired roundels above, tall paired, moulded and shafted belfry openings below pinnacled moulded parapet, tall broach spire with bands of blind tracery and lucarnes with long gargoyles and carved finials to gablets, plus weathercock finial. Steeply - pitched roof has roll - moulded gable copings and cross finials. INTERIOR: 3 - bay arcades with wide pointed double chamfered arches on fat round Shap granite piers with ashlar bases and moulded capitals. Sanctuary arch has 2 orders of corbel shafts with crocket capitals. Segmental - arched beamed roof, boarded parapets with Gothic decoration. Boarded pews. Glass clear or plain colours in quarries except for E window 18th century with figures of Christ and Evangelists set in geometric - style patterns. N sanctuary c1904 Christ and children, and Good Samaritan. S aisle middle c1938 in LC Evetts style showing Christ calming the storm, and W window Christ and the fishermen, calming the storm, and with Peter walking on the water, set in geometric Gothic background; N aisle E end 18th century by Atkinson Bros. (Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 26). Ward's and Kelly's directories mention a St Stephen's Presby. Church on North Street? Could this be the same building?

Branch library and railings attached. 1910. By Edward Cratney; site the gift of JG Addison; paid for, and opened 21/10/09 by Andrew Carnegie. Brick with ashlar plinth, sill band and dressings; Lakeland slate roof with ashlar gable copings and cream faience ridge tiles. Wrought - iron railings. Free Baroque style. One storey, 4 windows. 3 - bay centre has wide - swept steps up to renewed door and overlight, recessed between narrow pilasters which support entablature. Paired windows flanking door have Ionic shafts on moulded sills to leaded lights; foundation stones below architect and officials. Wide pilasters define bays, the central 3 with recessed fascia, the ends gabled with open pediments. Aproned corbels on pilasters support heavy modillioned cornice, breaking forward at pilasters which rise to form corniced piers of central blocking course, and continuing along pediments which contain long Diocletian windows. Brick projections below end windows carry ashlar aprons to moulded sills; lugged architraves rise to wreath - carved triple keystones. Spike - headed railings, principals paired with swept finials and linked by crossed arcs, run from plinth of end pilasters, along forecourt, and curve up steps to entrance. The Corporation was offered £10, 000 by Carnnegie for 2 libraries; with this sum 3 were built, the others being West branch (Kayll Road (qv)) and Hendon. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 31; Monkwearmouth Memories: Sunderland: 1989-: 3).

2 houses, now club and offices. Early C19. English garden wall bond brick, No. 3 at left painted, with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof.

Two houses with later shops. Local red-orange brick. Late 18th or early 19th century houses; late 19th century shops. Extended to rear in various phases through 19th and 20th century. No. 173 at right refronted in late 19th century and top storey rebuilt c1980. No. 172 is subsumed in No. 173. Nos 170 and 171 at left painted brick with ashlar dressings and cast-iron first floor shop window. Welsh slate roofs. No. 170 has three modern skylights and a dormer window to the rear. No. 170 is painted white. No. 173 has unpainted brickwork. Nos. 170-1 and No. 173 have a shared chimney stack. Both buildings have cellars.
The front cellar of No. 170-171 was used for domestic occupation, with wallpaper, a large stone fireplace and the remains of a cast-iron range. The rear cellar appears to have been adapted, with a stone stair running up to the back room of the ground floor which was raised up in height to accommodate a brick vaulted room with a lockable cast-iron door and a moulded stone shelf. Stone was used for the walling, creating a small but secure storage space; it was presumably some sort of strong room. This may date to the time at which the building was used as a bank, where secure storage might be needed for documents, deeds and safety deposit boxes.
To the rear of No. 170-171 is a sequence of additions and outshots, as well as a further domestic dwelling on the site of the earlier mews. There is a brick barrel-vaulted addition on the west side of the yard. The vault and the use of iron suggests that this was purposely designed as a strong, possibly fire-proof structure and thus it must have been intended as secure storage, perhaps for documents . It may therefore date to one of the periods when the building was used as a bank, and perhaps provided additional secure storage in addition to the vault in the cellar.
The buildings are late Georgian in style and would once have been elegant, forming part of a small terrace with a uniform façade. No. 170-1 is the better preserved of the two buildings and retains a number of late 18th century features. The building is three-and-a half storeys high including attics. The window openings are original - three large windows at first floor and three smaller second floor windows. They have been adapted to take larger paned sashes, but the wooden architraves are original. A sill band runs beneath the second floor window. This is lost at No. 173. There is a small plain cornice along the eaves. The shopfront is mid Victorian in design. It has an elegant wooden corniced fascia with curved ends and dentilled moulding. Along the bottom is a plain brick stallriser and sill. The windows and support structure have been replaced and are now boarded over.
No. 173 was extensively modified in the mid to late Victorian period with the insertion of a first floor bow window with a large central pane and curved corner glass, set in cast-iron pilasters. The window cornice is set with decorative scroll brackets and rose medallions. The same motif is continued in the cornice and entablature of the ground floor fascia. The window is held in two slender cast-iron pilasters and stands on a simple plinth. The stallriser has been bricked over and was not visible. The shop has a small lobby lit by a large square fanlight. The inner door survives. The second floor windows (three four-paned sashes with stone lintel) have been renewed. The ground floor interiors of both buildings have been extensively modified. Original elements were preserved in Nos. 170-1 and small fragments in No. 173.
No. 170 was the premises of the J & Co. Backhouse Bank (formerly James & Jonathan Backhouse and Co) in 1820. This was only one of two banks operating in Sunderland in the first quarter of the 19th century. The company was founded in 1774 by James Backhouse, a Quaker flax dresser and linen manufacturer. The company opened a Sunderland branch in 1816. It is possible that that No. 170 was built for the bank. In 1896 the Backhouse bank merged with Gurney's Bank of Norwich and Barclays of London to form Barclay's Bank. In 1830 the Sunderland branch invested in and was replaced by the Northumberland and Durham District Bank. This was one of the largest joint stock companies the country but in 1857 the bank collapsed. Ward's Directory of 1859 lists J & Co Backhouse Bank again at No. 171. In the 1860s the Ryhope Coal Company took over the property. In 1894 No. 170 was a restaurant (Bainbridge's Eating House). By 1910 No. 170 was Cameronian Bootworks. In 1921 it was H. Mitchell, boot repairer. In 1820 No. 172 was the Durham and Northumberland Life, Fire, Mariners and General Provident Assurance Association, The manager, John Reed, also lived at the property. In 1859 No. 172 was the offices of the Albert Life & Liverpool & London Fire Insurance Company. RH Ireland was the manager. No. 173 was occupied by George Binns, linen and woollen drapers. Binns was founded by George Binns, a Quaker from Lancaster. He had moved to Sunderland in 1804 and opened a small drapers shop in Bishopwearmouth before acquiring the larger shop at 173 High Street West in 1811. On George's death in 1836, his son henry took over the business, renaming the shop H. Binns. This later became Binns & Sons. The family were supporters of social reform. Henry's brother George was a Chartist who did much to improve conditions for the poor. Both brothers were active in the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Binns would not sell 'any goods manufactured from cotton not warranted to be free labour grown'. They occupied the shop in High Street West for 73 years, employing 3 sales assistants. In 1885 they moved to larger premises in Fawcett Street. Binns became an icon in Sunderland. Its slogan was 'Binns for Everything'. The shop in High Street West was still vacant in 1894. The Goad Insurance plan of 1894 shows that Binns drapery shopfront had a curved bay window. A series of roof lanterns illuminated extensions to the rear which had no windows. Fragments of the frieze that decorates the lantern and light well below still survive. By 1910 Harrison & Co Iron Mongers leased the shop.

Congregational church, now United Reformed Church. 1881-83. By JP Pritchett. Coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar plinth and dressings and red granite shafts; graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone gable copings. East apsed church with schoolrooms in 2-storey ambulatory; double transepts; aisled nave. Cost £14,000, seated 1000. Gothic style.

Presbyterian church, now United Reformed Church, with adjacent hall, and walls and gates attached. 1888-90. By John Bennie Wilson of Glasgow. This chapel replaced St. George's Chapel on Villiers Street. Much of finance provided by RA Bartram, shipowner, who laid the foundation stone on February 7th 1889. Rock-faced red Dumfries sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of small Lakeland slates with red terracotta ridge tiles and stone gable finials.

Footbridge over railway cutting. 1866. Cast and wrought - iron. Cast - iron piers with wrought - iron ties support girder deck with balustrades with cast - iron panelled piers of elaborate design and wrought - iron spike - headed railings and intermediate panels with scrolled patterns. Built over a railway cutting to link the public Mowbray Park opened in 1857 with its N extension added in 1866.