The immediate neighbourhood surrounding Lord Street falls under East Cheshire's conservation scheme, with a number of properties noted as particular merit. The architecture is an eclectic mix of rather opulent Regency, Edwardian and Victorian-era homes, once owned and occupied by affluent local business proprietors, professionals and senior management. Almost rubbing shoulders, the more humble workers cottages and mixed use weavers cottages. Grand chapels and railed leafy parks, contrasted with the sprawling and slightly distant silk and cotton weaving mills.