Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House

It was built in 1877 by Frederick Thorpe Mappin, a local businessman, and was intended to provide non-alcoholic entertainment to the working classes.

[1][3] Mappin had no previous involvement with the movement and seems to have built the Cocoa and Coffee House at the suggestion of a Reverend Lamb of St Mary's Church, Bramall Lane, who had read of the Liverpool experiment.

Details include a rosette taken from the building's 19th-century terracotta tiles and also possibly cocoa pods or steel crucibles, a band saw and clinker.

[1] The building is noted in the 2004 Pevsner city guide for Sheffield as being "large, two storeys in brick, quite plain with round-headed windows".

[3] The developer stated that the building's "age, suitability, poor condition, limited capacity for adaptation and overall unsustainable characteristics" precluded renovation and that it contained asbestos and was prone to flooding.

[2][3] The proposed development included the site of the Tramway pub, demolished in 2015, and a vacant office building to the rear of the coffee house, where a further 27 flats would be built.

[2] HHB stated that the new development would be "a jarring intrusion into an historic streetscape in an aggressively unsympathetic style using inappropriately coloured materials, on an overbearing scale in both overall mass and decoration".

[4] The Victorian Society state that the existing structure is "a distinguished building, adopting a dignified Italianate form with handsome and high-quality brickwork detailing".