GK277/1

Deeds of Wickham's Brewery of Hertford (taken over by Wells & Winch Ltd 1938) Draft Conveyance 1) Edw and Harold Wickham of Hertford Brewers under the style of E J Wickham (vendors) 2) Wells & Winch Ltd, The Brewery, Biggleswade (purchasers) a) Freehold Property 1) Messuage or dwellinghouse at or near the Old Cross, Hertford, called No 7 Mill Bridge, Hertford 2) The Brewery and other buildings, yard and wharf belonging, now in occ of vendors AND yard and gateway on W of dwellinghouse and premises formerly occ by Geo Stuart Durant and now by Eardley Edw Russell SUBJECT to existing rights over same by owners and occupiers of 3 & 5 Old Cross, Hertford 3) Messuage or tenement between 2) and Mill Bridge, used as the Brewery Tap, in occ of vendors 4) building used as the Brewery office with the rooms over adj 1) on W side and now forms pt of 7 Mill Bridge, Hertford, in occ of vendors 5) Messuage or dwellinghouse at the Old Cross, Hertford, formerly in occ of Geo Stuart Durrant and now of Eardley Edw Russell and now called 1 Old Cross, Hertford 6) Building formerly used as a Malting of malthouse and kiln and several workshops and sheds and outhouses adj, sitauted by the Old Cross, Hertford abs E River Lee and Backwater of Hertford Town Mills now partly in occ of vendors and are used by them as stores. Other pt is in occ of Geo Stuart Durrant with full use of yard to the West side by the Company and their successors and to use gateway from public highway or street pay 1/2 cost of upkeep All marked on attached plan 7) Piece of land on S side of Railway St, Hertford, with Public House called Duncombe Arms and buildings in the rear 8) Messuage or dwellinghouse with the shop attached, numbered 26, Railway Street, Hertford, and buildings erected on site and yard and gateway entrance 9) Messuage or dwellinghouse + yard, gdn shed, outbuildings etc on S side of West St in Borough of Hertford, formerly in occ of Isaac Chamberlain, afterwards on Jn Nunn, then of Mrs Coomber and now of Dellar and is known as 29 West Street, Hertford 10) Messuage on S side of West St adj 9) and used as Public House called Black Horse with yd, gdn, sheds, outbuildings, etc 9) and 10) abs N West St S pt of Wallfield Estate E messuage and premises formerly in occ of Wm Frampton Andrews W partly by 11) below and partly by Public footway from West St to Wallfield cottages 11) piece of land being the site of 6 cottages or tenements with outbuildings, yard, passage, etc, near West St in the liberty of Brickendon, Hertford E side of path or footway from West St to Wallfield (Cottages known as 1 - 6 Wallfield Alley, Hertford) now forms pt of the garden of the Black Horse 12) Cottage or tenement now used as a Beerhouse and known as 'The Woodman' at Chapmore End in Parish of Bengeo Rural, Herts AND all that close of pasture land lying behind the cottage [1.1/2A] AND piece of land [1R 34P] No 19 on Enclosure Award re Orden Common in Parishes of Bengeo Saccombe and Stapleford, Herts, dated 12 July 1852 EXCEPT small piece of pasture land at rear of the property which has been sold to Mrs Monica Fielding Chapman-Walker 13) Piece of land (formerly Waste of Manor of Ware Extra and Thundridge near School House, Wareside, near Ware, Herts, on NW side of Road leading from Reeves Green extending from a pond S to the end of 10 poles in length with the Beerhouse and Tavern erected on it known as the Railway Tavern b) Leasehold 1) Cranborne Arms, Beerhouse, St Andrews Street, Hertford (held on lease for 14 years from Christmas 1937 1) Rt Hon Robt Arthur Jas Gascoyne Cecil 2) Gascoyne Cecil Estates Company 3) E J Wickham, Brewers (tenants) Rent 35 pa 5 Mar 1938) 2) Star Brewery Tap, 83 High St, Ware, Hertford (held on lease for 21 years from 24 June 1930 1) Richard Page Croft (landlord) 2) E J Wickham, Brewers (tenants) Rent 70 8 Mar 1930 CONSIDERATION 20,000 pd by 2) to 1) 25 Mar 1938

1938

From: 1938 To: 1938

No. of pieces: 1

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Wickham, Edward,
Wickham, Harold,
Wells & Winch Limited,
Durant, George Stuart,
Russell, Eardley Edward,
Chamberlain, Isaac,
Nunn, John,
Coomber,
Dellar,
Andrews, William Frampton,
Chapman - Walker, Monica Fielding,
Cecil, Robert Arthur James Gascoyne,
Gascoyne Cecil Estates Company,
Croft, Richard Page

BIGGLESWADE, Ware, Stapleford