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Augustus. Sidney Roberts had been a partner in the silversmith business of Roberts, Smith & Co. of Park Grange, Sheffield between 1826 and 1836, however by the time he came to live at Dial House at the age of 41 he
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In 2013 Dial House and its surrounding land was purchased by the
Sheffield construction company Campbell Homes Ltd and has been incorporated into a new housing development known as Dial House Court. The original house has been turned into three cottages while new building work has created 33 two
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The house was constructed in 1802. It consists of two storeys with a three window range and is built from squared stone with a stone slate roof. The house had various additions and alterations to it in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front door has a square panel above with a vertical
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inherited the house in 1856 although it seems that he did not reside at Dial House as his mother lived there until 1868, just before her death. Subsequent occupants included
Captain Henry T. Holmes (1868–1871) who was followed by William Haden, Gentleman, who was a
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Wadsley Hall was used to construct a new housing estate known as the “Sutton Estate” built by the
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Coopland on it. It is not known if Coopland were the first family to live in the house or were the makers of the sundial. There is also a verse on the sundial which reads:
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in an area that included the other country houses of Dykes Hall and
Wadsley Hall. The first known occupant of the hall was William Rotherham, a gentleman who lived in the house between 1841 and 1845.
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was listed as a retired silver plater and a gentleman of independent means. The family's elder son John
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