Built between 1905 and 1924, between the embankment of the Midland Railway (1870) and the Sheffield - Bakewell turnpike (1808) (date from Smith 1997). An area of grid-iron terracing of common design, with good survival of common back yards, toilet blocks, etc. Built as the area developed and industrial growth spread along the Sheaf Valley (for instance Tyzack's nearby Little London Works) this housing area was well provided for by shops built along Abbeydale Road (the frontages of which are in a variety of states of preservation) and by the nearby Primitive Methodist Church (HSY1906) and St Oswald's C of E Church. This polygon has an integral contextual relationship with the Abbey Glen Steam Laundry on Coniston Road / Coniston Terrace (HSY1908) which appears to have been built as an integral part of the wider development and shares many stylistic features with the surrounding housing. The geographical location of these terraces on the alluvial flood plain of the River Sheaf and the 1851 and 1891 Ordnance Surveys suggest a previous character type of valley floor meadow, of which no legibility is preserved.