Addycombe Cottages

A terrace of five houses was built in 1873 by Norman Shaw for Lord Armstrong at Addycombe Gardens, Rothbury. The cottages were restored and the rear walls reduced in height in 1978 by Spence and Price of Newcastle. The construction uses rubble with rock-faced and margined dressings, red clay tile roofs with ornamental terracotta ridges, and purple slates on the rear outbuildings.

Originally divided into flats, three of the central houses have been converted into two-storey dwellings. The end houses have two bays each, while the central houses have one bay each. Each house features vertical-panelled doors with plain overlights, along with two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows, with those in the upper stories set within gabled half dormers. Ridge stacks have battered faces. The side elevations show an inserted 20th-century window alongside an original slit window in the gable, and decorative bargeboards.

The rear elevation displays gabled rear wings on the end houses, providing access to first-floor doors via external stone stairs. The end houses have gabled outbuildings, while the central houses feature pent-roofed outbuildings. Attached yard walls have re-set arched coping.

The cottages were originally built to provide accommodation for retiring staff of the Armstrong household.