Collegiate Crescent was developed as part of the Broomall estate in the mid 19th century and is a good example of the new suburban park design favoured and desired by the emergent middle classes. Collegiate Crescent was laid out by 1841 and many of the houses were constructed by 1851. Prior to the estate the land was farmed by a John Watson who acquired most of the estate in 1809. The estate was in private hands before, being attached to Broom Hall, which still stands in the centre of the polygon. Broom Hall was constructed in the 16th century and has given its name to the surrounding area. Although many properties have been reused or split into multiple occupation, the suburb retains, mostly intact, the mid 19th century middle class park design character. Fragmentary legibility of earlier features probable.