The housing includes traditional Baltimore rowhouses built of redbrick and formstone. The Crown building was a large redbrick ten-storey building with numerous chimneys. It is a single storey circular redbrick building, originally constructed without a roof. The buildings were in redbrick with a single brick chimney. Older residences are largely redbrick back-to-back and 'through' terraced housing. Housing in the area is split between upmarket Yorkstone semi-detached houses and redbrick terraces. This building was the first building of Aalto's redbrick period. Powell attributes to Widmerpool a Life Peerage and chancellorship of a redbrick university. Moor Close is a Grade II listed redbrick Jacobethan house built in 1881. The redbrick University Hall, built in a Queen Anne style, was the first substantial block. Towards the end of the century, the "redbrick" universities, new public universities, were founded. This was the first of the redbrick universities to gain university status. However the new redbrick universities and the other major cities were open to women. Much of this original redbrick still stands despite war damage, as well as many expansions. It was described as "Redbrick Tudorish" by Nikolaus Pevsner.