Mostly in use as retail units these terraced shops date to the early decades of the 20th century. The polygon includes the highly legible and well preserved early 19th century public house 'The Porter Cottage' (shown on the 1851 OS). The buildings within this polygon are constructed on the site of the dams and buildings of the Upper and Nether Lescar Wheels (see Crossley et al 1989, 79-81). These sites are clearly shown on the 1851 6 inch OS which depicts the Upper Wheel as the 'Lescar Grinding Wheel' but shows that the lower wheel had been developed as the 'Porter Steel Works' with a complex including a courtyard of buildings on the south of Sharrow Vale Road. The earliest record for these water powered sites is from 1587. The Porter Cottage is the only built survivor of a complex of buildings shown around the Porter Steel Works in 1851. Fragmentary legibility of the mill complex preserved in the northern boundary of this polygon which follows the boundary of the dams and goits associated with it.