Hillsborough House

The grounds had areas given over to agriculture but there was also extensive parkland featuring a lake, two lodges, and a tree-lined avenue.

[3] Broughton Steade inherited the house upon his father's death in 1793 but sold it in 1801 to John Rimington Wilson of the Broomhead Hall family.

Rodgers renamed his residence Hillsborough Hall as he thought this better reflected the property's significance.

Dixon's art collection, which included works by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Watteau, was also auctioned.

[4] The death of J. W. Dixon junior in 1890 caused the hall and its grounds to be divided into 14 lots and auctioned off.

Lands on the western side of the estate were sold to build Hillsborough Trinity Methodist Church and to accommodate new housing as the city of Sheffield expanded.

In 2012 Sheffield City Council put the coach house and stable block up for sale with a view to them being restored and renovated by the private sector and turned into a café and restaurant facility (and possible wedding venue).

[5][6] In April 2018, the charity Age UK put forward plans to revitalise the coach house by turning it into a café and community centre for elderly people.

[7] On 29 June 2020 The National Lottery Heritage Fund awarded local charity Age UK Sheffield £581,500 to restore the derelict Old Coach House building and turn it into a new community dementia friendly café.

Restoration work began in the spring of 2021, with Corinna Pearce, Marketing Co-ordinator at Age UK Sheffield, saying: "The Coach House building was derelict, infested with pigeons, and unsafe.

Former politician Roy Hattersley, who was brought up in Hillsborough, had this to say in his autobiography A Yorkshire Boyhood: “The library remained our constant joy.