This area of probable municipal housing was developed between 1907 and 1930 with a mixture of 'short terrace block' and semi detached styles employed, probably reflecting successive waves of development. The unity of the ownership of the development is suggested by the common 'poets' names of the streets and the regularity of the overall development pattern with a grid system employed throughout, although the main 'Harlington Lane' axial road is retained from the earlier post-medieval field pattern. Otherwise invisible legibility of earlier piecemeal enclosure of open fields.