Nos 5-13, With Backyard Walls And Outbuildings

This is a terrace of ten houses, numbers 5 to 13, built around 1870 by the Ashington Coal Company. The houses, accompanied by backyard walls and outbuildings, were constructed as larger-than-average dwellings intended for the colliery manager and officials. They represent the least altered of the original miners’ rows in Ashington, built by the Coal Company between approximately 1855 and 1878.

The houses are constructed of brick in an English Garden Wall Bond pattern, with painted stone sills and lintels, and have Welsh slate roofs. Each house has two storeys and three bays. The central doors are original four-panel doors, with the exception of Nos. 5 and 9, which have replacement glazed doors. These are set beneath latticed wooden porches with basket arches supported on moulded corbels, cusped bargeboards, and moulded finials. The windows are sash windows, with paired windows in the end bays of houses 5 to 11. Banded brick ridge stacks are located between the houses. Rear wings extend from the main block. The backyard walls include wooden hatches and yard doors, and attached outbuildings are also present.