![]() ![]() It has the feel of a secret garden, in the middle of the beautiful Rivelin Valley.“It would suit someone who wants to run a business from home, because of the substantial outbuildings, or someone looking for a family annex.”She continued: “The interior is a little dated because it’s been in the same hands for so long, but it’s still a beautiful property inside and out.“The garage still has a huge chimney breast where they would have done the forge baking and had blowers making the anvils. It’s almost like stepping back in history.“It’s set back so far from the road you would never know it was there. She said: “It was painstakingly re-built exactly as it had been, using the old pressed bricks and natural stone, and there are some beautiful buildings in the grounds.“There are so many historic remains of buildings from when it was an old forge. News Restored historic home offered for saleĪ piece of Sheffield’s history is up for sale, ready to be claimed by anyone with £550,000 to spare.The home built among the ruins of a once world-renowned iron forge within the Rivelin Valley has gone on the property market, for the first time since being painstakingly restored by its current owners.Mousehole Forge, tucked away off Stannington Road, was famed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for producing anvils - one of which remains on display at Gretna Green, in Scotland.It closed in 1933 and was left to crumble until the 1980s, when part of the old works was reconstructed and turned into a family home within the most romantic setting.The substantial four-bedroom property, with two large outbuildings and vast grounds, is now on the market for the first time.The Grade II-listed ‘hidden gem’ is being marketed by Saxton Mee, with a guide price of £550,000 to £575,000.Linda Crapper, managing director of the estate agents, described the property as a “mystical dream”.
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