DC/NB/E229/6/2

Auction Sale Particulars - G.C.Walker & Company, auctioneers; - Conquest, Clare & Binns of Mill Street, Bedford, solicitors; - at Swan Hotel, Bedford; - by direction of Westminster Bank Limited, executors under will of late Samuel Leach Kilpin Lot 1: 48 Cardington Road, Bedford ("for many years the residence of the late Mr.S.L.Kilpin"): brick, stone and tile with: - ground floor: entrance hall; dining room; drawing room with French windows leading to gardens; morning room or library out of which opens a lobby forming a cloak room, lavatory and wc; with side entrance from carriage drive on E; back hall with door to garden; butler's pantry; kitchen with range and dresser; scullery with sink and pump; pantry and cellarage - upstairs: 6 bedrooms, with fitted wardrobes and cupboards; 2 dressing rooms; bath room and wc - outside: small enclosed covered yard in rear with coal place, boot room and wc; gardens with fruit trees; walled-in kitchen garden; bowling green; lawn; near river end, a garage fitted with electric light approached from carriage drive on E boundary; adjoining, a potting shed and store room; brick, timber and tiled building containing 2 coach houses with loft over part of which was converted into a verandah overlooking river with a summerhouse underneath partially enclosed in glass; range of brick built and tiled stables containing 3 loose boxes and harness room; 2 greenhouses with potting shed adjoining; second verandah overlooking river; entrance to gardens by private gate approached from Duck Mill Lane House fitted with electric light and central heating with radiators; frontage to Cardington Road 61 feet 6 inches, depth to river 435 feet; "this is one of the very few properties remaining in Bedford with a riverside garden"; let to Mrs.P.C.Hall at 90 per annum under lease expiring 24 Jun 1936 with option of new 5 year lease Photographs include exterior front, garden looking S towards rear of house, view from weir showing stabling and boat, view from one of garden houses towards weir Lot 2: 46 Cardington Road, Bedford, stone, brick and slate divided into 2 self contained flats let to Major Le Huquet and T.Clayton at 135 and 112 per annum respectively with: - front flat approached from Cardington Road with entrance porch, hall, dining room, drawing room, morning room, kitchen, lavatory and wc and cellar with, on first floor, 3 bedrooms, box room, bath room and wc and, on second floor 2 bedrooms and 2 box rooms - rear flat approached by carriage drive on E boundary containing hall, dining room, kitchen, pantry, lavatory and wc and coal place, upstairs drawing room, 3 bedrooms, bath room fitted with lavatory and wc - at rear for joint use of tenants a range of brick and slated premises containing harness room, stable (2 loose boxes), two garages with loft over all Frontage to Cardington Road of 62 feet and depth of 117 feet 6 inches Photograph of outside front Memorandum: Charles Gude, agent for Bedford Borough paid 1,750 on 22 Feb 1935 [10 May 1927 crossed out]

10 May 1927 - 22 Feb 1935

From: 1927 To: 1935

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G.C.Walker & Company,
Conquest, Clare & Binns,
Kilpin, Samuel Leach,
Westminster Bank Limited,
Hall, Penelope Catherine,
Le Huquet,
Clayton, T.,
Gude, Charles

Westminster Bank Limited, G.C.Walker & Company, Clare & Binns Conquest, specific solicitors, auctioneers, Bedford Swan Hotel, sale catalogues, Great Ouse, bowling, non-agricultural leases, electricity, Bedford Borough, photographs, private buildings & land, Bedford Duck Mill Lane