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Abbeyfield Park House & Garden: Eavesdropping, Constance & Change

Abbeyfield Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4 7AY

  • Multiple dates available
  • In person
  • Pre-booking required

Abbeyfield House sits in one of the most well preserved examples of an extensive late Victorian private walled garden. We are offering tours through the house & the gardens setting in the context of the wider Pitsmoor landscape of the last 200 years.

Abbeyfield House emerges on local maps in the mid-19th-century marked as "Pitsmoor Abbey". Shortly after this the property was developed and around the turn-of-the-century extended and reoriented. The growth of Burngreave as a residential suburb led to the gradual sale or leasing of the many large private gardens and lands in the surrounding area and Abbeyfield House was sold to the Sheffield Corporation and opened as a public park in 1909.

Our tour will take in the general context of Pitsmoor both as a Victorian and Edwardian "polite society" house and garden as well as its varied history as part of the public realm subsequent to its sale. There are some well preserved Victorian and Edwardian features within the house as well as a few mysteries that remain to be solved which will form part of the tour itself. Our visit will include an optional and nevertheless careful descent into the vaulted cellars of the house and will conclude in the community room where the Friends of Abbeyfield House will offer refreshments and the chance to learn about the future of the house and gardens as well.

Timings & Tours

Saturday 13 September:
1100 & 1400
Sunday 14 September:
1400
Saturday 20 September:
1100 & 1400
Sunday 21 September:
1400

Location & directions

Abbeyfield Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4 7AY

Directions:
The House and Park are on the following bus routes from the town centre: 20, 75, 76, 76a, 83, 97 and 98. There is free parking on the road next to the park at the Abbeyfield Road entrance .
Contact on day:
Deborah Egan
Telephone number:
+447393188227

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking required
Booking conditions:
Tours must be prebooked via Eventbrite
Booking website:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abbeyfield-park-house-garden-eavesdropping-constance-change-tickets-1466540053779?aff=oddtdtcreator
Booking opens:
21 Aug 2025 10:00 AM

Accessibility details

Wheelchair and pram access to the ground floor and parkland only . No access to the first floor . The toilets are only available on the first floor and there is no lift and there is no access for wheelchairs or prams to the first floor but the ground floor is accessible.

Additional information

Max no of people per tour:
15
Est. tour duration:
1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)

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