Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF41/2/16/47
  • Title
    Other Sales or attempted Sales, Shortmead Street, Biggleswade (for later deeds etc. see preceding [HF41/2/16/43])
  • Date free text
    Undated 1880s
  • Production date
    From: 1880 To: 1890
  • Scope and Content
    Conditions of Sale Lot 1) 2 three storey dwelling houses, under one roof on 42 feet frontage to Shortmead Street let to Robert Wormsley and James Galer, baker; contains the following accommodation Robert Wormsley:- (rent £13 per annum) a front shop with large bow-fronted paned window, but at present temporarily converted by a match boarded partition and 2 doors (property of tenant) into a sitting room, and living room or kitchen and scullery with sink and fireplace, 2 bedrooms and attic bedroom on upper floors. At back small garden with pebbled path, ashpit and 2 lean to weatherboarded and slated wood and coal barns and closet. Compensation for improvements for tenant if he leaves 7 years from March 1884 James Galer:- (rent £18 per annum) Baker’s front shop with bow fronted and panel window; a front sitting room with private entrance door, a living room or kitchen, staircase, 2 bedrooms and 2 attic bedrooms on upper floors. Also large cellar in basement and adjoining and communicating with the house, a brick built and pantiled bakehouse with side entrance and fitted with 4 bushel coal oven and large flour loft over, a lean to scullery with copper and sink. And stable and covered gateway entrance with pair of close boarded gates and hay loft over both of similar construction and under same roof as bakehouse. manure pit. Weatherboarded and slated lean to closet and coal shed. A pebbled yard with flower beds and pump and well of water for joint use of both houses Whole property 3550 superficial feet enclosed by brick boundary walls (side approach to bakehouse and to yard by the entry called West’s yard) abutting N. property of Messrs E K and H Fordham E. property of E Chew junior S. Primitive Methodist Chapel W. [Shortmead] Street Lot 2) Copyhold Common Right (No.3 in Fen Reeves books held in respect of lot 1)) on common and commonable lands of parish of Biggleswade owner of common right entitled to graze 1 horse and 2 cows on Biggleswade Common, or if he prefers £3..10s from Fen Reeves in lieu. Lot 3) Similar copyhold right, No,58 in Fen Reeves book held in respect of premises in Market Square belonging to Mr Conder
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