Who built Fulwood House?

I think Fulwood House was built by Henry Ashington about 1892, as indicated by the second deed.

The Occupiers

Henry Ashington and his wife, Gertrude, lived at Fulwood Hall from 1892 until his death in 1895. Ashington was a solicitor living on Graham Road with offices in Bank Street before they moved to Fulwood House (Census 1891).

Mrs Ashington advertised for a ‘parlour maid, to act also as a housemaid’ in February 1894. Candidates were advised they should apply to Mrs Ashington, Fulwood, after seven in the evening.

Henry died in 1895 and Getrude, as sole executor, then sold the house to George Bush. Gertrude moved to Gloucestershire.

George Bush, his wife Susannah, and their three-year-old son are recorded in the census of 1901 living at Stumperlowe. They had five live-in servants, a number that suggests a large house. Bush and his family lived in Fulwood until 1908 before moving to Worksop.

When James Dixon was elected to the Royal Meteorological Society, the Telegraph usefully gave his address as Tylecote in Ranmoor. Tylecote which had been built for Dixon was put up for auction in 1908. Miss Dixon (daughter of James?) placed an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph in April 1910 announcing she had eggs for sale and giving the address as Fulwood House. Unfortunately, James and family are absent from the census of 1911, leaving the cook, parlourmaid and housemaid in Fulwood House.

Mr and Mrs James Dixon’s deaf and dumb guests at Fulwood House, Old Fulwood Road, Fulwood to celebrate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary

When Henry Isaac Dixon died in November 1912 James Dixon, as eldest son, moved into Stumperlowe Hall so Thomas Kingford Wilson and his wife Beatrice moved to Fulwood House (they had been living at the Hall).

T K Wilson, a scion of the snuff manufacuring Wilson family, married Beatrice Dixon, daughter of Henry Isaac Dixon in 1895. T K Wilson was, by 1921, the Managing Director of Tennant Bros Ltd of Exchange Brewery in Sheffield. Thomas died in 1937

The picture below is catalogued by Picture Sheffield with a date of 1947 but this is unlikely as Beatrice Wilson died that year aged 71 years. The womanin the picture looks to be considerably younger than this.If the picture was taken in the 1930s when Beatrice was in her fifties, her companion could well be her husband.

Landau belonging to Mrs B.H. Wilson of Fulwood House

After Beatrice died, the house was sold to the NHS.