Birtley Cenotaph, memorial shelters, and garden wall including gate piers and railings.

The Birtley Cenotaph is a First World War memorial, with later additions for the Second World War and the Korean War, located in a garden on the east side of Durham Road. The cenotaph itself is a tall pylon constructed from Heworth stone ashlar. It is square in plan, and each face has rebated panels forming a cross. The pylon stands on a two-stage base, raised on a circular step, and is topped with blocking courses indicating an empty tomb, above a heavy, dentilled cornice. Carved in relief on the arms of the cross are wreaths and festoons. The principal dedicatory inscription, cut into the front face, commemorates officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of Birtley Parish who died in the Great War (1914-1918) "for God, King and Country, the sacred cause of justice and the freedom of the world." A bronze plaque below lists 61 names, with similar plaques on either side and a smaller plaque to the rear recording the remaining First World War names. A bronze plaque on the front face of the upper stage of the base records the dates 1939-1945 with 33 names, while the other Second World War names are recorded on plaques around the base. The name of one soldier who died in Korea in 1951 has been added to the left-hand plaque, and a small plaque added in 1991 is also located on the left-hand side of the pylon. The cenotaph is approached by four steps from the garden gate. The garden is enclosed by a low brick wall with stone coping and railings to the front, including gate piers, and a taller brick wall to the rear. This rear wall connects the two timber shelters that flank the cenotaph. These shelters are of three bays, built on brick half-walls, and glazed on three sides with solid rear walls. The glazing consists of three central panels with chamfered wooden glazing bars, of nine panes each, flanked by wider side panes, all surmounted by a window head of tinted glass panes including ornamental bracing. Originally open, the shelters have been enclosed with double doors, each featuring 12 panes over two wooden panels. The over-sailing hipped, tiled roofs are supported by simply scrolled wooden brackets, with timber fascias carrying the guttering. The shelter to the south retains its terracotta roof finials, and both shelters are equipped inside with timber benches around the walls.