Chippinghouse Road

[RichardB]

Any ideas how it got its name please ?

Mrs Kain, 198 Chippinghouse Road 1893, 1905

Parker Wilson, Potato Merchant (Wilson Brothers), home 198 Chippinghouse Road 1911, 1919

Thomas Bullivant, Fruiterer, 137 The Moor & 53 London Road; home 198 Chippinghouse Road 1925

Thornton Dungworth, Secretary, Sheffield Free Brewery Co. Ltd., Queen's Road; home 198 Chippinghouse Road 1925

Any more information for this address please ?

[vox]

Any ideas how it got its name please ?

John Shortridge, the man responsible for building the railway from Sheffield to Manchester and the Wicker Arches, was also the founder of the Heeley Omnibus. He lived at Chipping House, a house which stood on the site of the present Chippinghouse Road. He office was at 48, the Wicker with a stone dated 1853 on the front, this building still stands. He was killed on May 7th 1869 as the result of a carriage accident whilst driving in Heeley.

Source - History of Heeley

[SteveHB]

John Shortridge, the man responsible for building the railway from Sheffield to Manchester and the Wicker Arches, was also the founder of the Heeley Omnibus. He lived at Chipping House, a house which stood on the site of the present Chippinghouse Road. He office was at 48, the Wicker with a stone dated 1853 on the front, this building still stands. He was killed on May 7th 1869 as the result of a carriage accident whilst driving in Heeley.

Source - History of Heeley

John Shotridge built Chipping House.

[vox]

[vox]

Is it just number 198 you're interested in Richard ?

[RichardB]

John Shortridge, the man responsible for building the railway from Sheffield to Manchester and the Wicker Arches, was also the founder of the Heeley Omnibus. He lived at Chipping House, a house which stood on the site of the present Chippinghouse Road. He office was at 48, the Wicker with a stone dated 1853 on the front, this building still stands. He was killed on May 7th 1869 as the result of a carriage accident whilst driving in Heeley.

Source - History of Heeley

Excellent, Thank you; so how old might Chipping House be then ?

John Shortridge, Railway contractor, Cricket Inn Road (1849)

John Shortridge Esq., Brickmaker and railway contractor, Chipping House, Abbey Dale (1852)

[RichardB]

Is it just number 198 you're interested in Richard ?

I'll take anything, but, a relative of a friend is moving into 198, hence the interest.

[SteveHB]

John Shortridge, the man responsible for building the railway from Sheffield to Manchester and the Wicker Arches, was also the founder of the Heeley Omnibus. He lived at Chipping House, a house which stood on the site of the present Chippinghouse Road. He office was at 48, the Wicker with a stone dated 1853 on the front, this building still stands. He was killed on May 7th 1869 as the result of a carriage accident whilst driving in Heeley.

Source - History of Heeley

The dates appear to be incorrect;

The accident was published on the 6th of May 1869,

John Shortridge died later from extensive injuries on the 8th of May at 7 o'clock

Edit:

Looks like the date of Johns death was the 7th of May,

should have checked my own facts rather than quoting incorrect data published in a book,

sorry about that.

[vox]

Went to have a look if there was any clue as to where Chipping House may have stood but nothing was apparent.

I did however take this.

198, Chippinghouse Road.

[SteveHB]

This is interesting, about John Shortridge and the location of Chipping House.

"Chipping House, a large two-storeyed mansion built in a park. The

legend on a photograph of it reads: “Chipping House, whose site was to the west of Brookfield

Road, was built by John Shortridge"

More about JS here .. IV - 15 (pdf page 11).

www.gissing/newsletter-journal/journal-35-3.pdf

Just a wild guess ..

[Guest Gramps]

To expand a little on vox's contribution...

About 1850 John Shortridge, a civil engineer from Cumberland, bought part of the Broadfield estate at the auction following the Shore's bankruptcy and on part of this land he built himself a house which he called Chipping House. The name has no obvious local association so was probably connected with Shortridge's life before he came to Sheffield. He died in 1869 and the house and land eventually fell into the hands of George Wostenholm, whose friend, John Steade, rented the house from 1873 to 1883. From then it remained unoccupied until the land was sold for building in 1891 and the house was eventually demolished as part of the housing development.

From this photograph of the house it looks to have been quite grand.

http://www.picturesh...ff.refno=s05784

Source - Mary Walton, History of the Parish of St. Peter, Abbeydale.

Edit: I see the 'Chipping' connection is explained in the Gissing Journal.

[RichardB]

Nice work one and all, Thank you.

[vox]

Just a wild guess ..

Your wild guess looks to be the only viable contender that I can see Steve.

Nothing else with any land

The address - Abbeydale Road, (the land extends to there)

West of Brookfield Road

The land partly developed at the time of the map ??

[RichardB]

Obelisk

[vox]

IF it is, then the building marked X, above "Fresh Artiste management" looks to be built right over the original building.

Google Map

[RichardB]

IF it is, then the building marked X, above "Fresh Artiste management" looks to be built right over the original building.

Ring 'em, ask if they mind us knocking their building down while we have a look-see.

Seriously, not a bad idea to let them know the history of the site.

[vox]

Ring 'em, ask if they mind us knocking their building down while we have a look-see.

Seriously, not a bad idea to let them know the history of the site.

I had already decided to have a look. I'll do what you suggest when I do.

[Guest Gramps]

Mary Walton does say the house had gardens down to Abbeydale road and that the gates were on Abbeydale road. She also says that it was a condition of the sale that the house, or at least parts of it were to be pulled down. The 1903 map shows there to be some buldings on the site.

Shortridge paid £3,300 for "the Lathe Field, the Plantation, the North and South Crofts and the toll house". Can't be certain which fields are meant on the 1850s map but I think the red 'X' is the rough postion of the house. The toll house continued to collect tolls until 1880.

It would have been an idyllic spot in the 1850s and still quite rural when he died in 1869.

[SteveHB]

Chipping House is shown and named on the 1903 Pawson and Brailsford Map,

and as Gramps pointed out about the gates 'the drive down to Abbeydale Rd' can also be seen.

(not so sure about the 1903 date as the Bacon map is pre 1900)

[Guest Gramps]

Chipping House is shown and named on the 1903 Pawson and Brailsford Map,

and as Gramps pointed out about the gates 'the drive down to Abbeydale Rd' can also be seen.

(not so sure about the 1903 date as the Bacon map is pre 1900)

Good find ! Shortridge also owned a brickworks - perhaps the one in that crop. I suspect street maps like the P&B map are composites of whatever they could lay their hands on with perhaps 'in house' modification so the date would be about '1903' - the year P&B published it. Perhaps the house was named on the large scale 1890s OS survey (1893-6?)

[SteveHB]

Good find ! Shortridge also owned a brickworks - perhaps the one in that crop. I suspect street maps like the P&B map are composites of whatever they could lay their hands on with perhaps 'in house' modification so the date would be about '1903' - the year P&B published it. Perhaps the house was named on the large scale 1890s OS survey (1893-6?)

Just realised,

I have linked to the wrong map

The crop is taken from the Pawson & Brailsford, post 1881 map

:rolleyes:

[Guest Gramps]

Just realised,

I have linked to the wrong map

The crop is taken from the Pawson & Brailsford, post 1881 map

I think that map must be post 1891, it shows the new Town Hall - begun 1891 and opened by QV in 1897; and if Mary Walton is accurate the Chipping House land wasn't sold for building until 1891 so the street layout would be perhaps a year later at the earliest. I'll try to see the 1890s OS map next time I'm in Local Studies. :)

[Guest Danny]

I love this thread !

When i used to live on Empire Rd, i had freinds who lived on Steade Rd and Brookfield Rd. Where the yard is and Fresh Artiste Management is, used to just be an empty yard/buildings and we used to 'play' in there. No idea at that time about the history of the site.

You cant just go wandering up there any more. The last time I was on Brookfield Rd there were some pretty heavy duty iron gates over the driveway.

This area is so familier to me, it seems amazing there used to be such a grand old house, of which there is absolutley no trace remaining.

Quite sad.

[Guest 3gnieceshortridge]

Wow, so much info on this site about my GGG uncle John Shortridge - thank you! I've been trying to trace his work for years now. Last time I came to Sheffield I went down the Wicker and looked for the offices - found them and the Wicker arches too. I went to Christ Church and looked at the memorial and then I tried to work out where Chipping House would have stood.

I think the house was named Chipping House because his wife Ellen was born in Chipping in Lancashire and they named it for that.

John Shortidge was the eldest son of his family and as the heir-at-law he inherited a few cottages from his maternal grandfather in Cumbria around 1830ish. He used this money to grow his business interests around Liverpool and Glossop area before coming to Sheffield.

thanks again

[Edmund]

Just come across the Shortridge family from another angle, my GGG grandmother, Ann Bishop, was a general servant to the Shortridge family in 1851 when they were living at Wybourn House/Hall, off Cricket Inn Road. One of the sons was a gunpowder manufacturer, which came out of their railway contracting work.

The house was here:

And here's the report of his death in 1869: