Building was listed Grade II in 1978. Listed building consent was granted for its demolition on 21 April 2004. It has now been demolished and was de-listed in 2015.
Former listing description:
House, now offices. Late C18. Incised render with roof covered in corrugated iron; dormers have tile-hung reveals. Left return rubble with irregular brick chimney insert. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Altered 6-panel door with plain overlight in raised surround flanked by sashes with fine glazing bars. Roof has 2 added dormers of Sunderland type with canted bays and pedimented centres. End brick chimneys. Inscription LAINGS YARD MANAGER'S HOUSE 1829, in stone plaque over door, relates to the large shipbuilding yard nearby.

Late C17 or early C18 house with mid C18 set-back addition and outhouse. C19 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone and sandstone rubble with painted ashlar and brick dressings. Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys. Concrete tiled roof on outbuilding. Linear plan with farmhouse projecting at left; rear cross wings to farmhouse. Exterior – 2 storeys. Central half-glazed door with plain lintel. Blocked window above. Sash windows with stone sills. Late C19 yellow brick ridge chimneys. Second build set back at left has 2 storeys with 3 irregularly spaced windows. Probably originally one-storey and raised in C19. Blocked door at right. Above this a stone inscribed SR EDWARD SMITH 1749. Late C19 sashes with stone sills. Lower 2 storey outbuilding – junction with the latter range obscured by patchy mortar. Varied openings, some blocked. Yorkshire sliding sashes, one with C19 glazing. Gabled left return has triangular arrangement of pigeon entrances with slate shelves and brick dividers. Interior – late C18/early C19 panelled doors leading off central passage. Outbuilding has roof of two collars to principals crossed at ridges. 2 levels of purlins morticed into rafters. A rare survival of an older farmhouse on the edge of a modern city. Recorded by Peter Ryder in 2014 in advance of restoration. Ryder identified three phases of construction. Phase one - original linear farmstead with a house at one end and agricultural building at the other. The cottage range at the west end of the range was clearly once a farm building as it has slit vents in its south wall. The house was presumably at the east end. The blocked doorway with the 1749 doorway above it, may indicate an original cross passage between house and byre. It is not clear to which phase the datestone applies or whether it is in-situ. The linear range could be a little earlier than 1749. Not long after the middle of the 18th century, the house was aggrandised. The present main block was built in good quality coursed limestone with a outshut on the north. It retained the north wall of the older linear range, but was otherwise rebuilt. The front part retains its original arrangement of rooms. The present central door looks to have originally been a window to light a space under the stair. Was the original front door on the present rear elevation? Or was the putative cross-passage door of the older range retained? The older range was heightened and altered. The section adjacent to the house became a separate cottage. The end was probably still in farm use. Other farm buildings were arranged around a farmyard including a barn with a gingang. In the late 19th or early 20th century the windows were changed and the brick sills and lintels were rendered and painted white to look like stone. The rear part of the main block was heightened and remodelled with a twin-gabled roof. Various small outbuildings were added on the north side of the house. The 1919 OS map shows a detached greenhouse or conservatory in the garden. By 1939 there was a greenhouse attached to the south side of an outbuilding attached to the west end of the cottage. The farmers listed at Middle Herrington in Whellan's 1856 directory are: Robert Errington and George Raine.

Parish church. 1888-90. By C Hodgson Fowler. Brick with red sandstone dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel. East apse, north-east organ chamber and vestry, south porch, west porches and baptistry. Basilica style. Exterior – plinth to full-height apses - semi-conical roofs. Shallow buttresses with Lombard frieze. Shallow pillars on north and south elevations. Round-headed windows. Interior – full-length arcades with plain round arches on round piers. Roof queen-post trusses. Complete scheme of decoration by James Eadie Reid – painted sanctuary apse with groups of English saints, biblical scenes above high panelled dado along both aisles. Stained glass in many windows, some signed and dated JER 1905. Marble communion rail panelled in cream, green and red. Marble mosaic sanctuary floor includes Frosterley marble. Square dark marble font with Romanesque carved patterns in west baptistry.

House, now two houses. Late C18 incorporating earlier fragments (possibly a 16th century manor house with a brewery to the west). Pebbledash render with Welsh slate roof. L-plan. The Wilderness – 3 storeys plus extension of 2 storeys. C1930 part-glazed door with semi-circular overlight. Mullioned and casement windows. Right return has shallow bow windows and sashes with some early glass. At rear of The Wilderness fragments of an older building show in irregular walls and a low bowed truncated beam. The Wilderness later became a hotel said to have been frequented by the Earl of Lumley & Scarborough as a summer retreat from 1790 to 1810. The Chestnuts – renewed door at right in plain reveals under gabled hood. Sash windows with painted stone sills and glazing bars. Interior of both – some window shutters, some early C19 chimney pieces.

House, now office, with yard wall. Late C18/early C19. Pebble-dashed rendered house with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with rendered and brick chimneys. 2 storeys. 2 steps up to central renewed door under bracketed hood. Projecting stone sills to renewed sash windows with glazing bars. Rendered end chimneys with brick cornices and tapered square yellow pots. Included for group value only.

Churchyard walls around three sides, with gates, piers and railings. Walls of the west rebuilt when churchyard truncated for road improvements. Limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar copings and ashlar piers, wrought-iron railings. North and south walls limestone and sandstone rubble with some brick patching and gabled coping. Gates have pierced roundel finials, bud and spike dog bar finials. Most damaged.

Boiler house retaining and parapet walls to south-east of the Church of Holy Trinity. Probably 1842 by G Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Elliptical-headed moulded surround to door in high wall with flanking quadrant parapet walls. 4 square piers with stepped gable coping.

Parish church. 1842. By George L Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Nave with west tower, chancel with north vestry. Early English style, with lancets. Interior – geometric-pattern tiled sanctuary floor. Painted stone altar with paintings of Evangelists in cusped panels. Renewed pulpit and communion rail (using older posts). Arch-braced chancel roof. Queen-post nave roof. Stained glass – east window to Scott family d.1864 and 1882. Chancel has 3 lights to Agnes Collingwood d.1875, and Sarah Thompson d. 1866, with Christ the Good Shepherd, Faith and Hope, signed Alex Gibbs of London. Nave south-east windows also signed Alex Gibbs 1901 to Collingwood rector d.1898. Other nave window of Good Samaritan commemorating Charles Pickersgill, Crown Road shipbuilding yard owner.

South entrance and boundary railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Entrance piers and gates flanked by railings extending c200m to west and east along Chester Road. Painted cast-iron piers and railings, ashlar piers. Brick dwarf walls with ashlar coping. Perpendicular style. Open octagonal cast-iron gate piers with brattished decoration with bud finials. Serpentine walls.

Column gravestone and kerbstones. C1890. By Bower and Florence of Aberdeen to Christopher Maling Webster, 1813-1890, of Pallion Hall, and members of his family. Red granite with bronze letters. Kerb with trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled dwarf piers. A high symbolically-broken column, with square pedestal and carved high relief anchor and rope at base. Long inscription on pedestal records names of Webster family. The first ropeworks for mechanical rope-making were built c1793 in Sunderland by an earlier Webster (HER 2799).