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- auction at Swan Hotel, Biggleswade; - auctioneers Conder & Son; - solicitors Hooper & Company of Biggleswade; [- seller John Malden of Biggleswade, seed merchant] - Lot 1: two storey brick and slate dwelling in Sun Street, Biggleswade; 2 living rooms, pantry, 3 bedrooms, brick and slate washhouse, adjoining wc; small vegetable garden at back; yard 112 yards deep by 20 yards wide enclosed from street by pair of gates; trade buildings used as seed merchant's and onion peeling factory; brick, timber and slate 6 standing cart horse stable 35 feet by 15 feet with hay and straw loft over; brick, timber and pantiled buildings 113 feet by 15 feet being 4 bay cart shed, two storey onion loft over fitted with cranes, pulleys and chains for sack lifting; chaise house; 4 bay cart shed; 2 bay cart shed with onion loft over; corn barn 57 feet by 20 feet with asphalt floor and onion loft over; well and water pump; rent of 50 per annum; bounded: N by Morley & Company, C.Bennett and Thomas Handley; W by Primitive Methodist Chapel and Mrs.Tasker; S by Henry Jackson, Wells & Company, trustees of John Church and Lot 2; copyhold of Manor of Biggleswade; Land Tax 6/4 per annum; - Lot 2: lath, plaster and pantiled dwelling with grocer's shop with 25 foot frontage to Sun Street opposite junction with Potton Road; basement cellar, kitchen, 2 living rooms, shop with bow window, 2 bedrooms; small pebbled back yard and garden; well and water pump; timber and pantiled barn with onion loft over; private closet; let to William Wheatley at 12 per annum; bounded N and W by Lot 1, S by William Field; right of way 10 feet wide and 65 feet long to back reserved over adjoining part of Lot 1; copyhold of Manor of Biggleswade; Land Tax 3/6 per annum; - Lot 3: lath, plaster and tiled three storey dwelling house and shop with frontage to Shortmead Street of 22 feet 6 inches; 2 attic bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, shop with bow window, living room, kitchen, basement kitchen, cellar; covered gateway entrance to side; enclosed from street by boarded gates leading to pebble paved yard; right of way for owners of Lot 4 from Shortmead Street; right of user by property to S; outbuildings adjoining house being weather boarded timber roofed shed with brick and tiled bacon curing or smoking chamber; weather boarded and slated closet; brick sunk ash pit; weather boarded and pantiled two stall stable with hay and straw loft over; well and water pump; let to A.P.Taylor, toy dealer, at 14 per annum; bounded: N by Mrs.Tasker; E by John West; S by Lot 4 and John West; copyhold of Manor of Biggleswade; Land Tax redeemed; - Lot 4: business premises in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade with frontage of 32 feet and depth of 155 feet to Cow Fairlands Twitchel partly adjoining Lot 3; lath, plaster and tiled three storey dwelling house with baker's shop and bakehouse of 4 bedrooms, shop with bow window, parlour with private entrance from street, living room, kitchen and basement cellar; adjoining new brick and slate bakehouse fitted with 11 bushel improved coal oven with flour store over; open gravelled yard approached through gateway from Lot 3; brick and tile outhouse used as harness room with straw loft over; timber and pantiled cart shed with two storey onion loft over; pigsty; stable; vegetable garden; let to James Howard at 28 per annum who owned buildings not for sale on site; bounded: N by John West and Lot 3; E by Henry Jackson and John West; S by public passage to Cowfair Lands from Shortmead Street; W by Shortmead Street; copyhold of Manor of Biggleswade; Land Tax redeemed; right of way from Shortmead Street over yard of Lot 3; common right of this lot offered as Lot 6; - Lot 5: with frontage of 59 feet to Market Square, depth of 244 feet to Back Street and area of 1,500 square yards, an old established seed merchant's business; three storey dwelling house of brick, plaster, tile and slate with ornamental modern front in white brick and bath stone dressings, bay windows on all floors, coal, beer and wine cellars and basement larder, entrance hall, breakfast room, dining room, drawing room, smoking room, kitchen, glass roofed scullery, pantry, front and back staircases, business office with separate entrance from street, 9 bedrooms, housemaid's closet, wc; over archway and office a 2 storey seed warehouse with outside box framed sack hoist; 2 walled in grass plots with trees and gravelled paths; 2 small paved yards adjoining house; garden wc; brick and slate 2 storey seed warehouse with double basement cellar; two large open gravelled yards separated by a fence; approached from Foundry Lane and Bond's Lane surrounded by range of small brick and slate manure pit, knife house, 4 hen pens and brick, timber and pantiled single stall stable with hay loft over; brick, timber and pantiled stable with 2 loose boxes, brick floored and chaff loft over; timber and pantiled hay loft with gateway entrance enclosed by folding doors, timber and pantiled 2 storey onion loft; timber and pantiled wood shed with second enclosed and covered gateway entrance with loft over; brick, timber and pantiled 3 bay cart shed, one bay used as pig sty; 2 timber and pantiled pigsties with walled in yards; timber, lath, plaster and pantiled coach house with loft over with similarly built and slated harness room; timber and pantiled cart shed with hay loft over; timber and pantiled 3 storey onion loft on brick underpinning; with frontage to Back Lane 4 lath, plaster and tiled cottages, 3 of 4 rooms each, 1 of 5 rooms with back yard, 2 timber and pantiled barns and 2 closets, well and water pump, let to Jacob Hare, John Dennis, Charles Huckle and Richard Prosser at rents totalling 26 per annum; bounded E by Conder; S by Back Street; W by Back Street, Bond's Lane and Wells & Company; N by Market Square; copyhold of Manor of Biggleswade; Land Tax on cottages redeemed, on Back Street yard and buildings 4/9 and yard and buildings next to New Inn Yard 1/11 per annum; - Lot 6: copyhold common right held in respect of Lot 4, Land Tax 1/11 per annum with entitlement to graze 1 horse and 2 cows on Biggleswade Common but can be let to Fen Reeves for 2/10/- per annum; - Lot 7: copyhold common right similar to Lot 6, Land Tax 1/11 per annum; - Lot 8: allotment of arable called Glover's Field, Langford of 8 acres with frontage to Cambridge of Edworth Road and worth 40 per annum; bounded N by High Road and property of Great Northern Railway; E by Great Northern Railway; S by J.J.Malden; W by occupation road and land of Vicar of Langford; Land Tax 14/7.5 per annum

26 Nov 1890

From: 1890 To: 1890

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Hooper & Company,
Conder & Son,
Malden, John,
Morley & Company,
Bennett, C.,
Handley, Thomas,
Tasker, Lydia,
Jackson, Henry,
Wells & Company,
Church, John,
Field, William,
Wheatley, William,
Taylor, A.P.,
West, John,
Howard, James,
Hare, Jacob,
Dennis, John,
Huckle, Charles,
Prosser, Richard,
Malden, J J,
Great Northern Railway Company

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