Southwick, James Armitage Street, Nos. 65-95 (odd)

HER Number:
7154

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Southwick, James Armitage Street, Nos. 65-95 (odd)

Place:
Southwick

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Terrace of 15 cottages. No. 95 at left end facing Fulwell Road, is dated 1874; main terrace perhaps slightly earlier. Brick, some painted and No. 91 pebble-dashed, with painted ashlar dressings. Roofs originally Welsh slate but some renewed in synthetic composition slates. One storey. No. 95 has central renewed door in architrave with MILL VIEW COTTAGE inscribed in stone plaque above cornice. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Renewed sashes, pointed arched heads to renewed end windows. Date 1874 in panels in gable peak. These houses have sociological as well as architectural interest, representing the Sunderland single-storey cottage which was the preferred house-type for C19 working class housing in the town. In similar streets elsewhere in the Durham Coalfield, the larger houses would be for colliery officials. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3873

Northing:
5874

Grid Reference:
NZ38735874

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/287