Armthorpe village appears, from the evidence of the OS first edition mapping to have been a typical linear medieval village surrounded on three sides by common arable fields and made up of loosely planned farmsteads along one main street. Few buildings predating the 19th century are listed by Magilton (1977, 5-6) although the church of St Mary is early Norman in date. This area appears from historic mapping to have formed a part of the historic village with farmsteads and small cottages depicted throughout this area until the mid 20th century. The village appears to have gone significant clearance and rebuilding during the twentieth century with a number of large public houses within this area dating to the 1930s (probably built to serve incoming miners to the colliery of Markham Main), with a further episode of rebuilding in the 1960s and 70s resulting in modern shopping facilities and municipal buildings. Fragmentary legibility of earlier form dependent on a handful of surviving former farms such as No 10 Church Street and White House Farm.