The character of the polygon is dominated by the electro-plating works. Other buildings have been cleared from the area along Penistone Road. From the middle of the 19th century onwards the site was occupied by terraced, back-to-back and courtyard housing. A few small workshops were intermingled with the housing and a school is depicted. Archaeological potential for 19th century housing on the scrub areas is high. The Fairbanks plan of 1795 shows a series of small irregular fields, probably created by assarting Shales Moor. Legibility of earlier types is invisible.