Scope and Content
Sale catalogue of Odell Castle Estate.
- Strutt & Parker of 11 Museum Street, Ipswich [Suffolk] and 37 Davies Street, London;
- solicitors: Wilsons, Steynings House, Chapel Lane, Fisherton Street, Salisbury [Wiltshire];
- description: "The site of the existing house is where a motte and bailey castle originally existed. the castle was head of the barony of Wahull charged with providing centre-ground for Rockingham Castle. In the Domesday Book it was held by Walter le Fleming. His descendants bearing the name de Wahull kept the castle until 1542 when it was passed to Richard Chetwode who sold the estate in 1632 to William Alston a prosperous lawyer. the estate was purchased by the current owners in 1934 who built the existing Odell Castle in the 1960s to replace the seventeenth century mansion destroyed by fire";
- Lot 1: Odell Castle with 8.65 acres; ground floor lobby, reception hall (24 feet 9 inches by 24 feet 3 inches), library (17 feet by 16 feet 9 inches), conservatory, drawing room (25 feet 9 inches by 15 feet 9 inches), loggia (23 feet 3 inches by 10 feet), dining room (25 feet 9 inches by 15 feet 9 inches), rear hall, cloakroom, staff sitting room (13 feet 6 inches by 11 feet 9 inches), boot room, separate wc, kitchen (16 feet 3 inches by 12 feet), office (17 feet 3 inches by 12 feet), storeroom; first floor galleried landing, seven bedrooms (two en-suite), bathroom; outside boiler room, herb garden, lawns, pond; 1 Castle Cottages "in need of modernisation" with hall, four ground floor rooms and two first floor bedrooms; 2 Castle Cottages with hall, sitting room, bathroom, washroom, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, front room, two first floor bedrooms;
- Lot 2 river meadows of 25.79 acres with 450 yard frontage to River Great Ouse and fishing rights;
- Lot 3 Castle farmland of 86.61 acres north of Odell Castle;
- Lot 4 Odell Great Wood of 278.40 acres, an SSSI of ancient, semi-natural woodland;
- Lot 5 Yelnow Farm of 79.19 acres including Yelnow Bungalow "constructed about 15 years ago" with entrance lobby, hall, sitting room, three bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and rear lobby; barn; Dutch barn;
- Lot 6 30.66 acres of arable land off Church Lane;
- Lot 7 5.61 acres at Hobbs Green Farm with a frontage to Church Lane;
- photographs [colour]: exterior front and rear of Castle; exterior of Castle Cottages; castle gardens; river meadows with sheep; River Great Ouse and island; Castle farmland with Odell church in the distance; Odell Great Wood; Yelnow Farm;
- site location map;
- site layout plan;
- no floor plans;
- Lot 1 £850,000; Lot 2 £75,000; Lot 3 £200,000; Lot 4 £230,000; Lot 5 £250,000; Lot 6 £70,000; Lot 7 £15,000; total £1,700,000