• Reference
    Z1118/1/10
  • Title
    Sun Public House, 42 Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard For Sun Close see Z1118/1/11 For public house see also: Z1118/1/13/10; Z1118/1/13/11; Z1118/1/18/1; Z1118/1/21/10; Z1118/1/21/12; Z1118/1/21/13; Z1118/1/21/18; Z1118/1/21/20; Z1118/1/21/21; Z1118/1/21/27; Z1118/1/21/29; Z1118/1/21/30; Z1118/1/21/31; Z1118/1/21/36; Z1118/1/21/37; Z1118/1/21/38; Z1118/1/21/39; Z1118/1/21/40; Z1118/1/21/42; Z1118/1/21/43; Z1118/1/21/44; Z1118/1/21/45; Z1118/1/21/48; Z1118/1/21/49; Z1118/1/21/51; Z1118/1/21/52
  • Scope and Content
    First description: - cottage in Leck End, Leighton Buzzard, with adjoining pightle later called Sun with pightle to backside of premises 1845 Lease description: - Sun public house, Leck End, Leighton buzzard, being brick and tile house with large yard enclosed by folding gates containing brick and timber washhouse, stabling for 10 horses with hay lofts over a range of brick and timber buildings with tiled rooves being 2 cart sheds, coal house, hen house, wood house and 2 piggeries with pump of water and old timber and thatch barn of large dimensions, two small brick and thatch tenements adjoining public house and paddock of pasture of 1.5 acres at back [this is Sun Close, see Z1118/1/11]; with garden ground lying S of Sun adjoining its paddock and street E Later description (1884) reveals that the garden ground to S had been given up Later description (1897) adds two brick and thatch cottages adjoining and brick and slate cottages adjoining last two dwellings with outbuildings, gardens and ground in occupation of Green and Rolls [these may be one, more or all of Z1118/1/12-14] Successive occupiers: - Joane Walter; John Walter; Benedict Walter; Thomas Walter; Thomas Cobb; Mary and Leonard Walter; Lucy Walton [as Sun public house]; Sarah Parsons; Richard Birdsey; John Hopkins; Sarah Hopkins; Joshua Hopkins; William Simmons; Jesse Simmons; George Cartmale
  • Level of description
    series