Sunderland East Community Centre, Former Sunderland Orphanage

The Sunderland East Community Centre, formerly known as the Sunderland Orphanage, is a boys' orphanage built in 1858 by Childs and Lucas, with construction supervised by Thomas Moore. It features a brick structure with an ashlar plinth and dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof, and is designed in an Italianate style with an irregular plan.

The building is two storeys high and includes a three-stage tower. The facade has a window arrangement of 4:2:1:3, with all window surrounds made of stone. The tower projects from the main structure and has two windows. It features an open porch with steps leading to paired keyed arches, an impost string, and a roundel in the soffit. The first-floor windows are 4-pane sashes with segmental heads and keyed lugged architraves. The third stage of the tower has triple lights with keyed round heads, an eaves band, and a bracketed cornice, topped by a low-pitched pyramidal roof. The returns of the tower have a single arch, one lugged window, and paired round-headed windows.

To the left of the tower, there are four bays with keyed round heads on an impost string above ground-floor sashes, which are plain below and feature radiating glazing bars above, along with projecting stone sills. The first-floor sashes have vertical glazing bars, lugged architraves, and segmental heads with long keystones. The building has a modillioned eaves entablature. To the right of the tower, one wide bay has a renewed wide ground-floor window beneath a bracketed cornice, possibly a former balcony, and a lugged surround for a first-floor stone-mullion two-light window with renewed glazing. The three bays to the right are set back and have windows similar to those on the left, with single and paired windows on the first floor featuring renewed glazing in stone surrounds. The hipped roofs are finished with ashlar corniced ridge chimneys.