Bishop's House See Ryder 1979, 95; SMR PRN1412 & PRN259; Berwick 1976 The main building on this site is a restored 'post and truss' timber framed house in the care of Sheffield Galleries and Museums . The house is currently presented as a reconstruction of the house in the mid 17th century. The grounds outside the house were occupied until the 1880s by a number of outbuildings including at least one cruck framed barn. Most of the buildings were cleared at the time of the acquisition of the property as an extention to Meersbrook Park in the 1880s by Sheffield Corporation. By this time the building had been divided up into cottages for farm labourers and continued to be used as a domestic residence by the park keepers and their families until the 1970s. The buildings reflect the growing post-medieval prosperity of the area in the early post-medieval period as a result of the growth of the local 'proto' industry of scythe making (Beswick 1976). Fragmentary legibility of older property boundaries and street pattern probable.