An area composed predominantly of terraced housing on a grid-iron pattern. The area is adjacent to the historic core of Crookes village and would have formed part of the medieval open field system. The 1st edition OS map shows a landscape of strip fields that had been enclosed from the old open fields. The streets generally follow the line of the enclosed strips, although this is less readily apparent than on the west side of Crookes. The area bounded by Western Road, Slinn Street, Bates Street and Springfield Road was amongst the first to be developed and was probably done through a Freehold Land Society. Much of the terraced housing had been constructed by 1905. The row of terraced housing comprising numbers 8-46 Hands Road has the distinction of being the first council housing to be built in the city of Sheffield. Legibility is fragmentary as the influence of the open fields and enclosed strips is less readily apparent than on the west of Crookes.