These plots are likely to have changed little in their plan form since the first planning of housing along Towngate in the medieval period. The plots are long and narrow and set at right angles to Towngate. Therefore legibility is significant. The buildings on the main frontage are largely 18th century weavers cottages with characteristic mullioned windows giving light to weaving rooms. These buildings are now fully converted into housing. Some 20th century buildings behind the street frontage. Burgage plots now ornamental gardens. The field in the south west of the polygon is marked as containing tenters on the 1851 maps. These would have been used for drying and stretching cloth after it returned from the fulling mill (Hey 2002, 144).