The Cutlers Hotel that you see today is built upon the site of one of Sheffield’s oldest clubs, with a history that we can trace back to the 1800’s. 

The site where The Cutlers Hotel now sits was once home to a beautiful eighteenth century mansion house. The original building was opened in 1847 as ‘The Athenaeum,’ one of Sheffield’s first clubs.

At a time when national and international reading materials were not necessarily easy to come by, Sheffield clubs had extensive newsrooms and libraries. They quickly established themselves as central to the burgeoning cultural and intellectual development of the city.

In1900 we know that the building was refitted at a cost of £3,500 in order to serve as a clubhouse.

By the 1940’s Britain was at war. Sheffield was a major centre for steel production, and was aggressively targeting for bombing campaigns by the German Luftwaffe. The beautiful George Street mansion house did not survive and we have since discovered photographic evidence of the building burning. 

It remains unclear whether or not any of the original building survived, or whether or not The Athenaeum relocated after this point. The site of the George Street mansion was developed into offices in the 1960’s, before being transformed in the 1980’s into the hotel that you see today. 

Here at The Cutler’s Hotel we are very proud of the history and culture that surrounds our building. For any further information please do not hesitate to ask a member of our staff.