Simple effective mission church by N.F. Cachemaille-Day, 1938.

Focal point of the Conservation Area and of the two-row medieval village (HER 352).

1911 by C.A. Clayton Greene, the concave front derived from Edgar Wood's Upmeads, Stafford of 1906. During the First World War the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem combined to form the Joint War Committee to raise and organise Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) trained in First Aid and Nursing. The nurses were a mixture of qualified nurses and volunteers (mostly middle-class women). The organisation administered auxiliary hospitals and convalescent homes - many set up in large houses on loan to the Red Cross during the war. VAD hospitals received the sum of 3 shillings per day per patient from the War Office. Hammerton House was run by the 3rd Durham VA Hospital Unit. The building is now split into private residences. Honours for service to this hospital were received by: Miss Charlotte Wallace (Matron) - Royal Red Cross 2nd class honour and Mrs Evelyn Streatfield (Commandant) - OBE.

Built in 1757, this was the curate's house. It was used for choir practice and as a community centre. Now a private residence.

The round medieval and post medieval churchyard is worth noting - the only one in Tyne and Wear? It has been suggested that this knoll may have been a holy hill or 'tor' or that it originated as a late prehistoric enclosure. Today the extended and irregular shaped churchyard has mature trees. Some very old gravestones survive. The adjacent cemetery was laid out in the 1960s.

1975-8 by Gillinson, Barnett & Partners (of Leeds), exciting in scale and construction and colour, with polished stainless-steel cladding and a red-painted space frame. Twelve four-columned concrete pylons support a giant space-frame over one vast space. Glazed entrance recessed in centre of the front. Other facades blank and huge in scale. Inside a leisure pool with palm trees and 'beach' described as a 'south sea island dream world… just like the seaside', flanking a skating rink, sports hall and courts. Crowtree suffered from technical problems and high running costs. In 1999 the ice rink closed. In 2008 the pool closed. Demolished in 2014/15.

One of the first good modern railway stations by British Rail's Architect's Department, 1965. Minimal cube in crisp black-painted steel and white tiling. Shops on all sides of the clerestory-lit booking hall {1}. Replaced 'Central Station' shown on OS second edition.

1972 by Middleton, Fletcher & Lloyd. A group of octagons in brown brick, four with pitched roofs ending in 'funnels'.

Original Technical College with ornate terracotta by Potts, Son & Hennings, 1901. Priestman Building of 1939 by Oliver Hall Mark in graceless Beaux-Arts classical bears heavily down on the small Georgian houses opposite. Extended 1951 by G.T. Brown & Son. Edinburgh Building 1964 by the Borough Architect. Wearmouth Hall (now demolished) on Chester Road was a tower block built in 1963. The auditorium next to it was decorated with sculptured cement artwork by Mitzy Cunliffe and was clad in copper sheet. A photographic record was taken before demolition and is lodged with the HER and Tyne and Wear Archives.

The concept of a new town hall for Sunderland was first proposed in 1939 but plans were shelved due to the Second World War, and it was another twenty years before plans were revived. Sunderland’s new town hall and civic centre was a response both to a crisis of accommodation that had seen staff dispersed all over the town in separate buildings, and a desire for a progressive image that would attract new, light industries. The early 1960s was a time of expansion for the town with a proliferation of new house building, and a new civic centre was sought for 900 staff. The seven acre site chosen was some four hundred yards from the 1890 town hall, and was sited between Mowbray Park (Registered Landscape Grade II) and a disused railway cutting. The council brief was for a new building to provide accommodation for all 18 council departments with easy ground-level public access to each. There was to be a civic suite, with a council chamber, committee rooms and members' accommodation plus a small mayoral suite, which was to be capable of functioning as a separate element. There was to be extensive car parking and service facilities with separate car parks for the civic suite and for the departmental offices.
By Sir Basil Spence, Bonnington & Collins, 1968-70. Approachable-looking building. Offices in two large hollow hexagons aligned along Burdon Road with provision for two more as expansion requires. Civic functions isolated in a small half-hexagonal block at the far end of the site. Access by a railway bridge from the town centre or from Mowbray Park via a footbridge. Facades simply treated in bands of pinkish ceramic brick and lightly-tinted glazing. In lower courtyard, a fully-glazed two-storey rates hall and restaurant. Car park built out over the railway cutting. Inside the courtyard, accessed by steps, a series of artfully-designed steps and ramps and paving in the same pinkish ceramic tile. At the top of the slope, beyond the second courtyard, the mayoral suite, assembly room and council chamber with copper-clad lantern. Council chamber has steep timber roof and lantern. Cost £3,250,000 to build.
Not recommended for listing after consideration in 2017. Extract from advice report - 'Sunderland Civic Centre possesses some design interest and reflects the 1960s change in the concept and planning of civic centres. However, mindful of the requirement for rigorous selection of post-war town halls and that architectural interest is paramount in that selection, we are unconvinced that Sunderland Civic Centre achieves the high level of architectural interest required. After assessing all considerations in the round, the building is not recommended for listing and a Certificate of Immunity from listing should be issued.'
The building was subject to historic building recording in 2020 (event 5257 report 2020/98) and 2021 (event 5462 report 2022/88).