Council offices and a large library built in the mid 20th century, by 1973 mapping. There was formerly dense terraced housing, likely to have also contained commercial premises, in this area. Shambles Street was largely rebuilt after the 1822 Barnsley town improvements act under the designs of John Whitworth (Whitworth 1998, 192). This area is likely to be within the medieval planned settlement that ran along Church Street and Shambles Street. The town was relocated to this area by the monks of Pontefract by the 13th century from its original position further north west (Old Town) (Elliot 2002, 37). There is partial legibility of the past townscape as the main medieval street pattern survives.