First depicted on the 1952 OS 1:1250 plan this area of commercial and institutional buildings includes shops, the Wordsworth Tavern public house, a Roman Catholic church (now a 'parish centre'), Parson Cross Branch Library, a surgery and a club. The polygon is of two distinct phases. The earliest reflects the overriding style of the estate as planned, typical of Sheffield's 'cottage estates' and termed by Harman and Minnis a 'minimal neo Georgian' (2004, see 'topic box 18', p 29). The early buildings are laid out on near symmetrical road plans with a central axis formed by Margetson Road forming a formal 'closed vista' focussing attention on the post office at the centre of the Margetson Crescent shopping arcade. The initial phase of the estate as shown on the 1953 1:1250 plan SK3492NE left a number of vacant plots for later development. These were filled during the late 50s and early 60s by institutional buildings in a radically contrasting modernist style with flat roofs and prefabricated concrete units for example at the library; the extension to the Wordsworth Tavern and the Club between Wordsworth Avenue and Margetson Crescent. The earlier landscape history of this polygon (which early OS maps suggest was one of piecemeal enclosures is invisible within the present layout.