The New Arcade was developed in 1876 on the site of the gardens associated with Frederick Lodge. The arcade had a glass roof. It was occupied by small shops including a Marks and Spencer Penny Bazaar (1900) and Mrs Palmer’s Music shop (1900). The latter came to occupy most of the arcade and the site became known locally as Palmers’ Arcade. The arcade was demolished in the 1970s to facilitate the extension of the Telephone Exchange.

The Telephone Exchange was constructed in two main phases. The first building was constructed in the 1930s. The frontage faces St Thomas Street. The ground floor has two entrance ways with five windows. It is clad in ashlar sandstone. The next three storeys have 3x7 windows. The fourth storey has a row of five roof top windows. The Telephone Exchange was extended in the 1970s with the addition of a tower extension. Palmer’s Arcade was demolished to facilitate the extension.

Location of a YMCA building that was damaged during an air raid in 1941. The site is now the location of the William Jameson public house.

A 19th-century façade facing Borough Road that has been incorporated into a recent redevelopment initiative that involved the construction of apartments located on the corner of Borough Road and Toward Road. Since c.1827 the site has been occupied by a public house called ‘The Providence Garden Inn’. The public house was subsequently renamed and became known as the Palatine in 1855. The Palatine Hotel was later renamed Mowbray Park Hotel.

Former Gas Company Offices built in 1867, the first commercial building in Fawcett Street. The building was designed by G.G. Hoskins of Darlington. It is constructed out of brick with sandstone dressing in a High Victorian Gothic style. There is an oriel window in the centre above a granite column with carved foliage.

Former Binns department store constructed in the 1930s in a classical style. Binns was founded by George Binns in 1811 as a drapers on Sunderland High Street. The shops moved to 173 High Street West in 1880 and then to Nos 38-39 Fawcett Street in 1888. By 1921 they had expanded to occupy the whole block and premises on the west side of the street and part of the east side. The western department store was clad using a stripped classical style with shallow porticos, pilasters and entablature with suggestions of Streamline Moderne style. The western store was rebuilt in 1953 and the eastern store was rebuilt in 1962 after wartime bomb damage. The eastern side was a classical styled 1930s construction. Binns was taken over by House of Fraser. The east building closed in 1989 and the west in 1993. The western building is now occupied by Wilkos and the entrance to the City Library is now located on the east side of Fawcett Street.

Former Walton’s Hotel which was the home of James Laing a shipbuilder until the early 1860s when he moved to Thornhill House. The building became the Vestry bar, the original bar still exists within the premises. By 1913 the Theatre De Luxe was established upstairs. In the 1970s the bar became the last male-only drinking establishment in the centre of Sunderland. The building is now occupied by the Vestry Tea rooms and Triple Six Tattoo Studio.

Building designed by M.K. Glass for the British and Colonial Furniture Company in 1929. The building is constructed out of brick with a decorative frontage constructed out of local measures sandstone. Brick chimneys can be observed on either side of the building. The structure has a large central window with decorative ironwork and carved sandstone features. The ground floor is currently used as a commercial premise for the British Heart Foundation.

Three properties with the original house shell now used for commercial purposes. The first is occupied by Thomas Watson a chartered surveyor and estate agent. This house is separated from the next terrace by an ornate sandstone entrance for first floor offices. The following terrace also has a sandstone frontage and is currently occupied by Greggs Bakery. The third structure was occupied by Gowland the jeweller followed by Northern Goldsmiths and now Greggs.

Fawcett Street was laid out by William Jameson as the principal street through Fawcett Estate between 1810 and 1814. The Wear Bridge Commissioners paid £500 to the Fawcett Estate to use the land as a new turnpike road leading to the Wear Bridge. Four story terraces were constructed along the street. In the 1850s there was a game dealer and music shop. From the 1860s increased commerce resulted in the street being occupied by commercial premises such as haberdashers, drapers, ironmongers, furniture, tailor, bookseller, music and art shops in addition to professional offices such as solicitors. The street is now occupied by small outlets, charity shops and some premises are now vacant.