Pre-New Town housing includes the flats at Edith Avenue by Napper, Errington, Collerton, Barnett & Allott (1961-8). A development of the architect's prize-winning 'urban feel' scheme at Lillington Gardens, Vauxhall, London. Out of place in this declining mining community, the flats were dreary, vandalised and half-empty ten years later until they were refurbished in 1981 by Sunderland Borough Council. Three-to-five storey brick and concrete blocks with access decks arranged around formal concrete spaces. 1969-71 303 small houses were built east of Sulgrave Road and Marlborough Road. Short straight terraces of flat-roofed houses enclosing mixer courts.

Rented houses and flats round mixer courts (1972-6) similar to those at Glebe but with pitched and monopitch roofs. Houses in staggered terraces with rough timber porches and balconies. A wall of three-and-four storey flats in the same style, the blocks linked together by timber-fronted access balconies. Across the main road, a speculative development of private houses with Neo-Georgian details.

1879 by Austin & Johnson. Stained glass - east window, 1921, by Morris & Co; central lights ('the Resurrection') designed by Henry Dearle.

An existing mining community with award-winning houses for rent by Corporation architects at Rowan Avenue (1970). Very simple beige brick one-and-two storey houses laid out on the Radburn system. At General's Wood luxury private housing in landscaped setting (1970-5).

Red brick housing for rent (1972-5) in one-to-three storey blocks round mixer courts. Brick balconies on the taller blocks and access decks between them. Flat roofs. The courts converge on pedestrian walks leading to village centre with primary school, old people's hostel and community buildings in same style. Also 45 experimental energy-saving houses by Newcastle University School of Architecture c. 1976.

Imaginative conversion by the Development Corporation (1973-7) of a planned C19 farm built c.1860 by the Lambton Estates. Substantial stone buildings, with an industrial look to them, round a large courtyard. Artisan workshops in the arcaded tool and animal sheds and a theatre, bar and meeting rooms in the barn.

The mining village of Fatfield has given way to a large new village on a new site on the hillside above the Arts Centre (1975-9). Stuccoed houses, white and earth colours with red pantiled roofs and small irregularly-placed windows. Stepped and stone-sett play areas. Too Mediterranean for North Durham

In 1800 the Parish Beadle, Job Atkinson, locked people such as drunks into the stocks, which were located between the Old Smithy and the church. No trace remains today, but the wall fixings were still evident until at least the 1960s.

Mostly a post-1945 mining settlement. The first group of housing for rent was completed in 1968. At the top of the hill in Doncrest Road, a small development of private houses by Eric Watson, 1969-70, looking out to Penshaw monument. Rather sea-sidey, with lots of shrubby planting and rough dark-stained timber on the split-level houses.

The Oval is a pre-New Town mining developed 'improved' by re-roofing and rendering in 1970. Around courts to the south, red brick two-storey terraces for rent (1974-6). A number of taller houses with monopitch roofs and free-standing ranges of garages. At the top of New Road, The Pantiles is a row of rather crudely detailed red brick houses and flats for rent (1976-9) with pantiles, stained timber oriels and pergolas at the rear.