Leader House

The house was built in 1770 by the Duke of Norfolk for his agent Vincent Eyre; however, there is no evidence that Mr Eyre actually lived in the house. In 1777, Thomas Leader leased the house; Leader was a silversmith, originally from Broxted in Essex, who came to Sheffield to set up the firm of Tudor, Leader & Co. in 1762 with Henry Tudor. The firm's speciality was high-quality snuff boxes. The house became known as Leader House at this time and has continued to be called so up to the present day. The Leaders emerged as one of the eminent families of Sheffield, becoming newspaper publishers and historians. In 1780 there was a reorganisation of the street plan around the house, which…

Leader House is brick built with a slate roof with one brick and two rendered gable stacks. On the north side is the main pedimented door with Doric columns and a large canted bay window. The house is three storied with a three window range at the front, these being twelve pane sashes on the first two floors and six pain sashes on the top storey.