Terraced housing that is built by 1906 maps, some houses are slightly earlier. The transport junction at Stairfoot became a centre for industry in the 19th and 20th century which would have required extra housing for the work forces. Industries consisted of bleachworks, glassworks, brickworks and collieries. The junction of the Doncaster and Salter's Brook Turnpike, the former pack horse way on the London to Richmond Road, the Dearne and Dove Canal, and the M.S & L.R. railway line made this area attractive to industrial development. Prior to the housing this was an area of regular enclosures that may have been part of the 1763 Ardsley enclosure award (date from English 1985). This enclosed former areas of common. There is partial legibility of the surveyed enclosure pattern in the layout of the houses.