The Winn Gardens estate consists of low rise flats and maisonettes. They were constructed in the 1960s. Very little development had previously occurred on the site which sits in a bend of the River Don. The 1893 25 inch OS map shows two small sand pits within the polygon. On the 1905 25 OS map, a sewage works for the adjacent Middlewood Hospital (marked as South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum) is present. Prior to this the area was marked as fields, probably utilised as valley floor meadows. Legibility is invisible.