It's hands down Sheffield’s most exclusive and richest suburb. A house in Dore will set you back £591,285 on average. But what’s the area really like? Is life behind gates really all it’s cracked up to be?
The area is home to celebrities with supercars and million-pound properties as well as the council homes. Dore has its very own council estate, and it's a well kept one at that. Tucked away behind Rushley Avenue, in its own neat little corner, you’ll find the suburb’s collection of 1980’s built council homes.
I bumped into one dog walker, in the area of Causeway Grange, who was willing to stop for a quick chat and was quick to squash any presumptions that there would be a divide between the area's council estate tenants and Porsche owners. She said: “It’s a lovely place to live. There’s no divide. It’s never been an us and them situation. A lot of people like to keep to themselves but everyone is really friendly.”
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Wandering further afield, I was met with what people would traditionally associate with Dore - big houses hidden behind sliding gates, sci-fi looking architecture, and yes, the rumours are true - a lot of expensive cars parked up alongside one another.
Something which struck me about the village was that it just instantly felt like a nice place to be - it was somewhere that I actually felt comfortable leaving my car, without worrying that it was going to get broken into, which is a welcome separation from how when you feel when leaving your vehicle parked up in some areas of the city.
I took a stroll along Dore Road, one of the suburb’s most prestigious roads, where a house will set you back around £1,072,714 on average, to admire the homes - or what I could see of them behind sliding gates and high hedges - when I spotted my first Porsche of the day.
From then on, I knew I was somewhere special. Dore is home to a number of celebrities and sports stars, and what I could see around me was enough to prove it.
The latest Range Rover with personalised plates were parked up next to Bentleys and Mercedes, while many of the houses had visible CCTV cameras on the outside, or signs warning passersby of their 24-hour surveillance system. And when Sheffield City Council's profile of the neighbourhood shows the median household income in the area to be £45,000 - with the largest majority of households - 1,146 - earning £75,000, its easy to understand why.
There are certainly worse places to walk around in Sheffield on a rainy Monday morning and I did spot a rather nice house for sale on Dore Road. But after a quick search on the estate agent’s website when I got home, I think might have to hold off putting in an offer on this occasion, as the four bedroom property is currently on the market for offers in the region of £999,999 - but who knows, maybe I will put that Lotto ticket on tonight after all.
It was while daydreaming about owning such a property that I bumped into another one of Dore’s locals - another dog walker. They were in a rush to get home, but said: “It’s a pleasant place to live, the crime rate is lower here than a lot of other parts of the city, it’s a nice area of Sheffield.”
With its gated houses and well-kept flower beds, Dore was certainly impressive to look at but to be completely honest, I found it somewhat underwhelming. Was I expecting too much?
Other than houses that most of us could only dream of living in, and construction works on those that were yet to be completed (one can only imagine the total cost), there didn’t seem to be a lot going on in Dore.
Caffe d’Amore, which had been a hit on Yorkshire Live’s previous visit to the suburb, is closed on a Monday, the local Post Office was having a refit and the other number of shops on the small stretch included an architects, beauty salon, local pub and opticians.
And maybe the weather didn’t help, or the fact that it was mid-morning on a Monday, but other than the sound of a bright blue Porsche whizzing past or a dog barking at me as I scurried past one of the area’s gated houses, the silence in Dore certainly was deafening.
That being said, it’s the only place in Sheffield which has ever remotely reminded me of being back home in Cheshire. Dore certainly seemed to be South Yorkshire’s answer to Knutsford or Alderley Edge - but at least over in the North West, there seems to be a lot more going on.
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'I spent the day in Sheffield’s richest suburb and left feeling underwhelmed'
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It's hands down Sheffield’s most exclusive and richest suburb. A house in Dore will set you back £591,285 on average. But what’s the area really like? Is life behind gates really all it’s cracked up to be?
The area is home to celebrities with supercars and million-pound properties as well as the council homes. Dore has its very own council estate, and it's a well kept one at that. Tucked away behind Rushley Avenue, in its own neat little corner, you’ll find the suburb’s collection of 1980’s built council homes.
I bumped into one dog walker, in the area of Causeway Grange, who was willing to stop for a quick chat and was quick to squash any presumptions that there would be a divide between the area's council estate tenants and Porsche owners. She said: “It’s a lovely place to live. There’s no divide. It’s never been an us and them situation. A lot of people like to keep to themselves but everyone is really friendly.”
Read more: Sheffield mum's chat with son at the age of nine helped save the lives of three people
Wandering further afield, I was met with what people would traditionally associate with Dore - big houses hidden behind sliding gates, sci-fi........
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