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Hi John
I googled Westcott Terrace Sunderland and found the following, which is amazing actually as I worked for Sunderland Public Works Department in the mid to late 60's as a clerk on building sites and one of my small sites was on the west side of Brandling Street and I had never heard of Westcott Terrace. Brandling Street is still there, near the site of Roker Park so you should be able to find it on Google earth.

 "Westcott Terrace was on the east side of Brandling Street, between
 Roker Baths Road and Cardwell Street. It will not be marked on a map as
 it was part of Brandling Street. It was common in Sunderland for a row
 of houses on a main road to be called a terrace and given a separate
 name, probably after the builder of the houses."

On the subject of Hodgsons Buildings I'm still not sure how many houses there were now. If as you say they strecthed down towards Edmondsons Street I wasn't aware of that, I've never seen houses numbers in any census over 16 or 18 which were all still there when my wife lived there.
Anyway i've just come in from the pub so I'll have another look at all this later

regards
Brian

Hi ThompJack
I found a website called Britain From Above but I'm not clever enough to add links but if you go to the site and search for Wearmouth Colliery there are a few photos, taken in the 1920s, that include Hodgsons Buildings. I've marked Hodgsons Buildings on a couple of the photographs. The large white house visible in the pictures is the building that is still there. The other houses have all gone.
One side of the houses faced onto Wreath Quay Road (which is still there but now called Millenium Way) This now runs over the railway line and past the south end of The Stadium of Light. The other side overlooked the north end of Monwearmouth Goods Yard while my wife's old house, number 16, was in the corner between Wreath Quay Road and the railway line.
Let me know if you find the pictures
regards
Brian