Walkley Hall on Heavygate Road in Sheffield

[Sheffield History]

Walkley Hall, Heavygate Road, Crookes, probably built by William Rawson in 1600. The Hall was demolished in 1926 to make way for the present housing estate.

[madannie77]

Isn't progress wonderful  

SIde by side map for reference, taken from the rather splendid National Library of Scotland map collection

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=53.3937&lon=-1.5045&layers=168&right=BingHyb

[Edmund]

2 hours ago, Sheffield History said:

Walkley Hall, Heavygate Road, Crookes, probably built by William Rawson in 1600. The Hall was demolished in 1926 to make way for the present housing estate.

The long side wall facing south east was bulging by over nine inches, and a huge buttress (over five feet wide and projecting seven feet) had been put against the cellar wall to counteract settlement above.

The Hall had nine rooms as first built, entirely of stone and the walls were 22 inches thick.  It had a lot of small windows, at least two per room, and some rooms had 3, probably to allow light and air in according to the wind direction, and originally there was no glass, with each opening having iron bars and wooden shutters.

William Rawson, eldest son of Edward Rawson of Upperthorpe, lived in Walkley and was possibly the builder of the Hall. He was born in 1574 and his will was proved in 1649. His son Edward, also lived in Walkley and he had a daughter called Mary, who married Robert Rawson (of the Wardsend Rawsons). Their grand-daughter Hannah, was the wife of Peter Birks of Handsworth (tanner) and it is likely that Peter's elder brother John purchased the Hall in 1748.

In 1748 the Hall belonged to the Rev. Thomas Wright who acquired it from his aunt, Mary Wright.  On 24th January 1748 Thomas Wright, clerk, of Romely, Derbyshire, sold it for £700 to John Birks of Walkley, a tanner.  Earlier possession by Robert Bagshaw is mentioned in the deed.

In 1775 John Birks left it in his will to his five daughters. In 1791 the husband of daughter Martha, Jonathan Hague, became sole owner, purchasing the shares of his wife's sisters.  At that time he mortgaged it to Elizabeth Fox of Sheffield for £400 and three years later raised a second mortgage of £1000 from John Henfrey.  He immediately went bankrupt and it was sold to Joshua Spooner of Hallam Gate for £2291 9s 6d.

In 1831 Spooner gifted it to his younger son Peter, who in 1876 bequeathed it to Edward Smelter Cadman (one of the sons of his cousin, William Cadman of Wath)

In 1908 Cadman sold a piece of the estate's land to John Edwin Nadin of Western Road, Crookes.  In 1912 the remainder of the land and the Hall was sold to Nadin. From Nadin the estate was purchased by the Corporation for building purposes.

[madannie77]

From that first paragraph it sounds like it was on borrowed time anyway, but the romantic in me would have liked to have seen it survive. Too many of these old houses disappeared, in my opinion.

(Don't get me started on Base Green Farmhouse!)