The architectural style is broadly similar to the nearby Beechwood and Saltersgill in the same postcode, TS4, as well as parts of the Pallister Park estate.
Much of its housing stock is post-war, built between the late-1950s early and mid-1960s in an open plan style with few high walls or fences and has large green spaces in common areas.
It is located next to one of the principal road routes into the centre of the town and, as such, is affected by the infamous 'Marton Crawl' in peak periods.
The Marton railway station (better described as a halt) lies about a mile east of the estate, at the eastern edge of Stewart Park and is on the Esk Valley Line that joins Middlesbrough and Whitby.
[4] The Middlesbrough Sports Village, a velodrome, skate park and tennis courts are on the other side of Marton Road on the site formerly known as Prissick Base.