Endcliffe Crescent was originally planned as a pioneer development of the suburban park design which was carried out by the Endcliffe Building Company. The estate was laid out near Endcliffe Grange in 1825 around an elliptical green. Long wooded drives and side entrances were to aid seclusion in accordance with the new middle class values of privacy. Numbers 20-30 are the remains of four pairs of semi-detached villas built in 1828. Twelve houses were originally planned but only these on the west side were constructed according to the original plan. Other houses in the crescent were developed in a piecemeal fashion over the mid to late 19th century. The area is shown as fields with straight edges on the Fairbank plan of 1795 which is indicative of surveyed enclosure. The line of the Crookesmoor Racecourse, which ran across Crookes Moor, bisected the green around which Endcliffe Crescent was built. Some original houses remain, as do many of the original property divisions.