One of the oldest character areas in the city this area of the medieval town was largely redeveloped as a 'fashionable residential quarter (Harman and Minnis 2004:111) in the mid 17th century. The presence of the professional classes in this district seems to have gone hand in hand with the establishment of such institutions as the Bluecoat school (1826), Old Bank (1728) and County Court (1854) all of whose buildings survive - now converted into offices. The street plan was enhanced in the mid 18th century with the addition of Bank Street and East Parade to the earlier medieval thoroughfares of Campo Lane, West Bar, Snig Hill, Scargill Croft and Figtree Lane. Paradise Square, "the most elegant survival of Sheffield's Georgian townscape" (ibid:113) was developed over the 18th century by separate developers within an area of open space within the medieval town. The twentieth century has seen the clearance and redevelopment of some higher density property within this area, particularly along West Bar. Significant legibility of medieval plan form elements.