[2] The firm constructed around 1,600 private houses, mainly traditional brick built 2 or 3 bedroom semi-detached family homes for rent and gave the Frecheville estate its name.

The original hamlet featured farmland and farm buildings, most of which are now used to house the Birley Wood Golf Club.

Base Green (grid reference SK390833) is a housing estate to the west of Frecheville and east of Gleadless Townend.

It is built on the land that was formerly Basegreen Farm, with the remains of an old orchard still evident within the playing fields of what is now Jaunty Park.

The hill above Quarry Vale Road and Quarry Vale Grove used to be Frecheville Comprehensive School and its extensive school fields, where Manchester United footballer George Best once filmed a series of short football programmes for BBC TV.