Sutherland Building

The Sutherland Building is a medical college that was later used as a dental hospital and school, and it was functioning as a Polytechnic building at the time of listing. The foundation stone is dated 1887, and the building was completed in 1895. It was designed by the architectural firm Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. The structure is made of dark red brick and terracotta, featuring an ashlar-coped plinth and ashlar dressings, with Welsh slate roofs at the rear.

The building is U-shaped and designed in the Tudor style, consisting of two storeys with a layout of five main bays, one narrower bay, four wider bays, and a central three-stage tower. The right end has a canted bay. The entrance features an open arch leading to a stone porch that includes benches, niches, and a panelled barrel-vault. Above this, there is a bracketed two-storey oriel adorned with terracotta ornamentation. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with a central semicircle and round-headed lights; similar glazing is found in the intermediate bays, which also include a blank upper left section and the canted right end bay. The building has sill and floor strings, along with gargoyles and battlemented parapets over the end bays and tower. A corbel table is present in the intermediate sections, and there is a high-pitched roof over the bays to the right of the tower. Historically, it was founded as the University of Durham College of Medicine.