This block of housing was constructed between the late 1930s and 1950s in Bessacarr, probably as local authority housing. It consists of a mix of detached and semi-detached properties built to a more grid-iron rather than the expected geometric pattern. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It formed part of Bessacarr Low Field which was probably farmed as an open field prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.