65-95, James Armitage Street

This is a terrace of fifteen cottages located on James Armitage Street, Southwick, Sunderland. Number 95, at the left end and facing Fulwell Road, is dated 1874, and the main terrace was likely built shortly before. The cottages are constructed of brick, with some parts painted and number 91 rendered with a pebble-dash finish. They have painted ashlar dressings and roofs originally covered in Welsh slate, although some have been replaced with synthetic composition slates.

The cottages are generally single-storey with one window each, with exceptions: numbers 85 and 89-93 have two windows, and number 95 has four. Number 95 is symmetrical, with projecting gabled end bays and quoins. It has a renewed central doorway framed by an architrave, with a stone plaque above the cornice bearing the inscription "MILL VIEW COTTAGE." The flanking windows are renewed sashes with flat stone sills. The gable peaks have renewed windows with pointed arches and incorporate the date 1874 in quatrefoil panels. The gables have plain renewed bargeboards, and there are eaves gutter brackets between them. Numbers 91 and 93 share a gabled entrance projection featuring pointed windows and a quatrefoil. The returns have wedge-shaped stone lintels above the doors and two windows with projecting stone sills in each cottage front. Other cottages have renewed doors under gauged brick round-headed arches, placed between window openings in some and centrally in others. Segment-headed window openings are set under flat brick arches. Brick eaves gutter brackets and a cornice are also present. The roofs are low-pitched, with transverse ridge chimneys.

These cottages are notable for their social and architectural significance, representing a common type of Sunderland housing favoured for working-class families in the 19th century. In similar streets within the Durham Coalfield, larger houses would typically have been reserved for colliery officials.