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Loxley House is located in a superb setting adjoining open countryside and fields. The majority of the properties enjoy superb views over towards Rivelin Valley, Crookes and Loxley itself. The main house is extremely impressive and has a fine facade including stone columns.
The development stands in approximately two acres and includes numerous apartments and mews houses and a further development of executive homes within the orchard itself. The proposed development is no doubt located in a first class area to the north of Sheffield and is only four miles to the city centre.
LOXLEY HOUSE HISTORY
Loxley House was built by Thomas Halliday. The sizeable stone above the window of the lounge originally bore the inscription "Thomas Halliday 1806". In 1808 "The House" was sold to Thomas Halliday who rebuilt it in 1826. It was much grander than the original with three storeys and three wide set bays. At the same time John Payne bought the land where the gibbet of Frank Fearn had stood, and in 1913 the descendants of Parkin Payne gave that stretch of moorland to the citizens of Sheffield. "Seventy five acres of land at Loxley Common and Wadsley Common to be used by the public for the purpose of exercise and recreation, and to be known as Loxley Chase".
By 1865 an eccentric doctor called Henry Payne was living in Loxley House. His cure for all ailments was a hot blanket over the affected part. He quarrelled with the local parson and vowed never to go to church again, but the parson reminded him he would be carried in at the end of his days, head first, in a coffin. But the determined doctor left instructions that he was to burried on his own estate, which included Wadsley and Loxley Commons, without church ceremony, his wishes being duly carried out in 1895. He even marked the spot where he was to be buried with a stone, stating he wanted to be placed in a brick vault in the plantation adjoining Loxley House. It should be covered with earth to avoid recognition. He even stipulated who should make the coffin and of what wood.
He also named the gravediggers and the fee they were to receive. The house and the estate passed to his nephew Thomas Phillips and later Alderman William Clegg also took up residence and then also William Bush. When the First World War began, two of Dr Payne's spinster nieces moved in and in 1919 the Cripples Aid Association bought the building for a convalescent home. Later it became the headquarters of the Sheffield Sea Cadets. The Grade II listed building was sold on in 1996.
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