A small utilities trench opposite Jessamine Court brought to light a short section of wall and associated flooring. The wall measured approxiamtely 2m in length, although it had been partially truncated by an earlier service trench. The bricks used in the construction of the wall measured 240mm x 120mm x 70mm, and were laid in regular courses as stretcher, with 9 courses still extant. The same bricks had been used to create the floor, the presence of which is highly indicative that this would have been a cellar.

Beneath the kerb, to the SW of No.54 Middle Street, was a NE-SW aligned brick structure. The structure measured approximately 5m in length, but was only partially exposed at the edge of the development area. At either end of the wall, there appeared to be NW-SE aiglned returns, indicating that this was part of a larger structure that continued to the SE. The bricks used in the construction of the wall were orangey red in colour, and measured 250mm x 120mm x 80mm. It is likely that this was the foundation to a 19th century structure that formerly occupied the location.

At the junction between City Road and Middle Street, the track bed excavations revealed the surface of several wall foundations. One wall was orientated NW-SE and measured 2.6m x 0.24m with bricks laid as headers (within the surface course). Approximately 8.5m to the NE a second wall was located on a similar aligments, although not quite parallel to the first wall. The surface course of this wall indicated that it had been laid as English Cross bonding, and although it had been truncated by several utilities trenches, it measured an overall legth of 6.8m oand 0.24m wide. Later excavations recorded this same wall as a structure demonstrating a total depth of 0.4m. The third wall at this location was positioned a further 5m to the NE. A further wall measured 2.45m in length was orientated NE-SW with a single line bricks laid as stretchers, with two sets of bricks laid at right angles, possibly creating buttresses. During the excavation of the track bed, this wall was exposed in section and recorded as a structure present to a depth of at least 0.2m. Indetical bricks were used in the construction of all three walls, each measuring approximately 220mm x 110mm x 80mm.

Also visible within the section of the track bed excavations was a structure located to the SW of the junciton between Middle Street and City Road. It was recorded as a single course of bricks, laid as headers, along a total length of 5.42m. The bricks measured 220mm x 110mm x 80mm, and were bonded with a hard, light grey sandy mortar. It is most likely that this was the remains of brick surface, probably within a yard to the rear of the properties formerly lining City Road.

Within a utilities test pit located in the pavement, adjacent to Jessamine Court, a small patch of cobbles were encountered. They covered an area approximately 0.7m x 0.3m using squared granite blocks between 0.1m and 0.15m across. The date of this surface is uncertain, but they would probably have served as a part of a yard or maybe as an earlier phase of the footpath which they were located.

During track bed excavations opposite Jessamine Court, machining exposed a 19th century pit. Although not fully exposed, it measured at least 0.66m in diameter and 0.28m deep, with steep sides and a flat base. Within the pit was a single deposit comprised of dark grey sandy silt with occasional lenses of brown orange sandy silt indicating a deliberate backfill. Fragments of pottery and glass were recovered from the features, which indicates it was in use during the 19th century

M. Dodd & R. Humphreys, 2015, NET Phase Two, Beeston: Archaeological Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SNT6233.