3-13 (odd) and buildings to rear

A row of houses with shops, likely built in the 1790s for Richard Arkwright to accommodate textile workers for his mills, with later alterations. Number 3 is probably later, but predates 1841, and is of two storeys. Numbers 5-13 were originally six houses under a low-pitched roof, constructed to a similar plan to Arkwright's Phase I type houses: two-unit dwellings with integral services to the rear, side stairs to the end, and party walls behind and to one side of the front entrance. These houses have two bays, with the entrance bay initially having no windows above the ground floor, and the other bay featuring windows to each floor. The windows originally had timber-framed 30-pane sashes with slender glazing bars and a small central opening light; these survive to all floors of numbers 9 and 11, to upper floors of numbers 7 and 9, though have been removed from number 13. Doorway details are obscured by rendering. A moulded stone eaves cornice runs along the top, and ridge stacks are present, two rendered, one of black and red brick.

Number 5 has 20th-century two-light casements in the upper windows; a small 19th-century shop window is to the right of the half-glazed door. Number 7 (formerly two houses) has one blocked door and two small shop windows, one with two-light casements, the other with a large six-pane sash. Planked doors are present at numbers 9 and 7, and number 13 has a half-glazed door and 20th-century two-light casements to all windows. Number 3 has a shop front that returns to the left, featuring an early 19th-century half-glazed panelled door with a rectangular overlight and a large window with glazing bars to the first floor, facing both the front and side.

The rear structures, belonging to numbers 3, 5, and 7 (the first with a curved corner, the second detached and end-on to the back lane, and the third parallel to the main range), pre-date 1841 and are built of random rubble with tiled roofs. Some small, possibly original, windows are visible on upper floors of the rear buildings, with some stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops visible. Most ground floor rear windows have been enlarged.