These buildings were built during the last decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Within what May and Jessop (2004) define as Group D. They consider the group to "retain historic merit" despite partial rebuilding and extensive alteration in the past 50 years (ibid, 11) Earlier mapping including the 1851 1/1056 and the Earl of Effingham's 1771 map or 'Rotherham in the County of York' (copy held by Rotherham Archives) shows this area is highly likely to have developed from burgage plots through market side public houses and eventually to its town centre commercial state.