Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Watkins Jones Group, to undertake an archaeological watching brief during a geotechnical site investigation (SI). The SI comprised 15 boreholes using a rotary drilling rig and a window sampling drilling rig and four hand excavated foundation test pits. The monitored works covered 0.47 ha, centred on NGR 43947 387397 (SK 34947 87397), between Rockingham Street and Bailey Lane. Planning permission (18/02170/FUL) has been granted under condition for a mixed-use development comprising residential and student accommodation, commercial spaces, landscaping and limited off-street parking. The Site was occupied by the warehouse of Grunwerg Ltd. during the watching brief. Historic fabric of the partially surviving J and Riley Carr building has been retained and incorporated into the warehouse complex and is supposed to be preserved during the demolition process of the adjacent structures. The watching brief was successful in so far as to identify the presence and location of probable structures and deposits associated with former industrial premises and tenement blocks across the site as depicted on OS maps of 1853 and 1890. Despite the levelling of the Site and the creation of a basement in the northern portion of the site below ground structures and deposits have survived the numerous development phases. Boreholes along the eastern side of the site produced evidence for probable structures associated with the Bailey Lane Works occupied by 'Carr J. and Riley, steel manufacturers' as shown on the OS maps of 1853 and 1890. This could be evidence for the previously unknown location of the hardening furnace in close vicinity to the known location of the cast steel furnace in the centre of the Site. A layer containing slate and metal objects located at the southern end of the Bailey Lane works can be associated with buildings for the production of cutlery or tools which is known to have occupied the Site during the 20th century.