3-19, Ridley Terrace

A terrace of twelve Sunderland cottages was built around 1880. The houses are constructed of brick with a stone plinth and brick dressings. The roofs are mainly Welsh slate, but numbers 11 and 16 have replacement concrete tiles and some felt coverings. Brick chimneys are present. Each house is a single storey and one window wide. Internal steps lead up to the renewed front doors, which are grouped in pairs and feature semicircular overlights. The brick surrounds to the door arches have pointed heads in a North Italian Gothic style, with matching arches over the renewed windows, which include projecting stone sills. A moulded brick eaves cornice with brick gutter brackets runs along the top of the terrace, although this has been removed from numbers 3, 4 and 19, which may have been extensively rebuilt. The low-pitched roofs have square, corniced chimney-stacks between each pair of houses. Number 13 features a late 19th-century dormer window, typical of Sunderland design, with a gabled roof. Alterations have included pebble-dashed render to numbers 5, 7, 9, 14, 15 and 18 and painted brickwork to numbers 6, 12 and 13. The terrace represents an interesting example of local 19th-century workers' housing, characteristic of the Sunderland area, which established a distinct one-storey building tradition in contrast to the two-storey Tyneside flats found in the Tyneside area.