North, South and Middle Rows

Built around 1865. Three rows of stone miners' cottages for Houghton Pit. There was a shop at the end of South Row. There was a coal house and a toilet in the back yards. They were two up-two down houses with a living room and kitchen on the ground floor and two bedrooms above. Indoor bathrooms weren't fitted until the 1930s, electricity not until the 1950s. The terraces were demolished around 1970. For a while the site was a football pitch. Its now [2007] occupied by Harle Close, Beckwith Close and Fairbairn Drive.