The three buildings, dating from about 1836, originally consisted of six four storey back-to-back weavers houses; the lower two floors were used as domestic accommodation and the upper two floors, with large rooms running the length of the building, for hand-loom weaving. The upper floors are currently used as a textile museum, which opened in 1967.
See 'A 19th Century Textile Working Suburb, Newtown, Wales' Ironbridge Research Report Number 76, 1990; pp.21-22.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 16 April 2010.