What is this strange stone basin? For a long time we had no idea until someone found something very similar in a

If you’re outside Bishops House on the south side [nearest the road] look up at the top of the wall, towards the

    Why are there two staircases in such a small house, especially as the main one is so big and grand?

When you get to the top of the main staircase look to your left. Tucked up in the corner of the wall

More than one visitor to Bishops’ House has asked us what the mark is on the North West corner of the house.

All the main upright timbers used when the house was built rest on pads of stone to level them up and to

When a timber framed building was constructed, the trees would have been felled and sawn for timbers, which would have been brought

When the Parker Shore Bank ceased trading in 1843 it caused something of a local scandal. Here was Sheffield’s oldest bank which

In the ceiling of the parlour on the ground floor, the plaster moulding in one corner does not follow the line of

The Blythe family are famous for their association with Bishops’ House but I’d like to write about some of the other people

If you stand at the top of the ramp leading into the Park, on Norton Lees Lane and look at Bishops House

They are very difficult to find and are best seen with the aid of a high intensity LED torch but here and

In March 2014 I found an 1846 record of Bishops’ House in the Derbyshire Record office in Matlock. It describes ‘an old,

If you look along the north wall of the building [the wall facing into the park] you may see a small square

Above the fireplace in the furnished bedroom to the right of the main staircase on the first floor is some plasterwork which

  There is a well in the cellar of Bishops House. It’s now blocked up and we can use a pump if

  Unknown to most visitors, there is a cellar, which lies under the main entrance to Bishops’ House. On the north and

At the end of what history now calls the Wars of the Roses, the victorious king Henry VII, on his marriage, adopted