Z1118/1/21/36

Lease Parties: (i) Joseph Procter of Leighton Buzzard, gentleman; (ii) Edward Terry the elder of Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire], common brewer Reciting: - brewery plant recently valued at 1,050 and it had been agreed that if, at end of lease, it was worth less (ii) would pay the difference to (i) Operative Part: - (i) leased (a)-(k) to (ii) for 21 years from 1 Oct 1866 at rent of 460 per annum Property: (a) property in Leighton Buzzard where William Fossey Pettit now or late carried business of a brewer consisting of brick built messuage with forecourt in front next High Street and brick and timber brewhouse and tun room with brick and tile malthouse and brick and slate stables for 6 horses and loft, counting house with room over, timber and slate cart lodge of 5 bays and double chaisehouse, cooperage, washhouse etc. with paved cellar and three arched beer vaults with yards and walled garden attached; premises extending from High Street to a back lane called Friday Lane; (b) fixed plant and utensils as in inventory; (c) Duke's Head public house, Heath & Reach consisting of brick fronted house with thatched roof, yard, stable, cart shed and woodhouse, range of piggeries and garden in occupation of Thomas Dancer; (d) brick and tile messuage called Cross Keys, Middle Row, Leighton Buzzard in occupation William Greening, with other part used as a shop and dwellinghouse in occupation of George Claridge with toft of land adjoining shop on which a cottage once stood with yard and garden on other side of street behind other properties and held with Cross Keys, containing stable, brick and timber built barn and range of brick and slate calf cribs; (e) Hare & Hounds public house, Ledburn, Mentmore [Buckinghamshire], lath, plaster and bricknogged house and outbuildings with yard in front containing two stall stable, hay house, coal house and gig house, thatched hovel, 2 small pieces of garden ground and paddock of pasture of 1a 0r 7p lying next to Mentmore road, all in occupation of Mary Ann Sayell subject to two rights of way of fifteen feet width across the land to cottages at rear of paddock; (f) 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, in occupation of Jesse Simmons; (g) garden ground lying S of Sun adjoining its paddock W and street E; (h) Roebuck public house, Leighton Buzzard, abutting Jeffs or Gig Lane being brick built corner house with adjoining cottage S and communicating it, pebbled yard with cart entrance at side containing two stalled stable with loft over, three bayed, slated cart shed with pump therein and timber built and thatched slaughterhouse; on other side of yard and abutting on lane timber built and thatched coach house with loft over and stabling for 8 horses all in occupation of John Garside; (i) Peacock public house in Leighton Buzzard near (h) being newly built brick fronted house with small washhouse in rear with large common yard containing two stalled stable, wheeler's and blacksmith's shops two other large stables and wood hovels (all thatched) and shed with loft over in occupation of Charles White; (j) messuage adjoining (i) in occupation of James Reed; (k) Bull public house in Stewkley [Buckinghamshire], being brick and slate house with three stall timber and slate stable and coach house and slaughter house and yard and garden behind and use, with John Bates of adjoining premises of well and pump and part of wall dividing premises from those of John Bates; in occupation of John Hounslow subject to right of way for John Bates over premises, through gates to street Inventory: - cast iron liquor back gauge 40 barrels with copper stand pipe with brass washer and iron waste pipe; - cast iron boiling back 20 barrels; - fir hop back gauge 27 barrels on 3 joists with strainer across and iron tyes and eight cast iron false bottom plates; - oak mash tun to wet 10 quarters with fir bottom and 12 cast iron false bottom plates; - oak under back gauge 18 barrels; - circular fir hot liquor back gauge 10 barrels; - 2 fir coolers containing together about 540 feet; - 5 fir working squares gauge 24 barrels each with raised sides and backs forming yeast boarding; - 5 fir settling backs and one smaller settling back; - two throw liquor pump with lever crank; - lead suction to well draining cock and cock to malting cistern; - pair of brass flanges and lead rising main from from pump wit hcistern head and nozzle into liquor back; - two spindle valves in liquor back with levers and chains; - lead service pipe to malting cistern and tub in yard and cock; - weatherboarded roof over liquor back with gable ends and vane on top; - stout landing on wrought iron carriages to liquor back; - 20 rail oak ladder to liquor back; - top cock in rising main and lead and copper pipe to small feed cistern over refrigerator; - small copper feed cistern; - lead service pipe from valve in liquor back to charge copper with large bib cock at end; - lead branch therefrom to sparger with cock, copper shifting nozzle and union; - short lead branch, stop cock and nozzle to charge boiling back and branch to brewhouse water closet and cellar of dwellinghouse and 4 cocks; - lead and iron branch across yard to scalding copper with 2 cocks; - open brewing copper, gauge 24 barrels with brass discharge cock, furnace and iron work; - brick setting and chimney shaft; - portable sheet iron inverted funnel or hood for copper and windlass and tackle as fixed for hoisting same; - copper safe under discharge cock with two valves in bottom; - copper discharging pipe to mash tun including two bends, two pairs brass flanges, large stop cock and draining cock; - copper branch for sparging including bends; - 2 union screws, shifting nozzle, cap and screw; - copper connecting pipe from boiling back into charging pipe including bends and large stop cock with brass flanges; - copper nozzle in hop back with union screw; - two spend cocks in bottom of mash tun; - copper basin in under back with draining cock; - 5 inch lead wort pump with lead suction to underback draining pipe and cock and tin charging pipe into copper; - copper wort main from union screw in hop back including shifting pipes to refrigerator with 7 pairs of brass connecting unions and bib cock; - "Wheelers" patent copper refrigerator to cool ten barrels per hour with overflow liquor pipe, draining pipe and cock; - copper shifting pipe with union screw from refrigerator to wort gutter; - fir wort gutter with 4 discharge cocks therefrom into working squares; - 5 cleansing cocks in working squares; - pipe and cock between coolers valve and nozzle with cock and waste pipe from no.1 pipe cock and nozzle from No.2; - 12 horse wrought iron cylindrical steam boiler with manhole and safety valves, water gauge with float chain and balance weight and mercurial steam gauge in mahogany case with service pipe and cock; - brick and stone setting of boiler including chimney shaft; - wrought iron steam pipe from worm in boiling back branch towards copper and cock; - copper steam pipes fitted to cast iron end chambers with outlet nozzles and flanges forming worm as fixed in boiling back and waste steam pipe from the same through roof; - valve in boiling back and iron discharge pipe to yard; - brass cock in boiling back with union screw and portable iron pipe for washing down; - wrought iron condensed steam pipe from worm in boiling back to hot liquor back; - wrought iron hot liquor service from boiling back to sink in dwellinghouse and cock; - wrought iron steam pipe from boiler to yard and stop cock; - cask steaming apparatus consisting of cast iron pipe with three nozzles fixed in wood frame; - furnace door and frame, furnace bars and other ironwork to steam boiler including damper chain, sheaves and balance weight; - wrought iron steam service from boiler to engine; - 4 horse high pressure steam engine on table framed with bright cylinder and rods; - governors, crank shaft and fly wheel as fixed complete with feed pump suction from hot liquor back; - two stop cocks and rising main to charge boiler; - steam cock and wrought iron blow pipe; - wrought iron exhaust steam pump from engine through roof; - cast iron 42 inch rigger keyed to fly wheel shaft and about 40 feet of 4 inch leather driving strap; - cast iron 42 inch rigger; - wrought iron horizontal main shaft with turned ends; - 2 couplings, 4 plumber blocks and brass bolts and nuts; - for carriages, bolts and nuts to main shaft; - cast iron 18 inch rigger and about 16 feet of 3 inch leather driving strap; - cast iron 36 inch rigger, round, wrought iron shaft with crank arm at end and rod to lever of liquor pump; - three turned bearings coupling box, 3 plumber blocks and brasses, bolts and nuts; - fir carriages, bolts and nuts to last shaft; - cast iron 24 inch rigger keyed on main shaft and about 30 feet of 3 inch leather driving strap; - cast iron 36 inch rigger; - round, wrought iron short shaft with two turned bearings, 2 plumber blocks and brasses; - 2 cast iron hanging carriages with stays, bolts and nuts; - pair of cast iron 24 and 12 inch bevil tooth wheels and short upright shaft to drive mashing machine with top carriage plumber block and brasses; - 10 quarter mashing machine as fixed in tun with upright and oar shafts, pair of small bevil wheels, rakes and transversing segments complete; - copper revolving sparger with 2 perforated arms, caps and screws; - cast iron 36 inch rigger keyed on main shaft and about 26 feet of 3 inch leather driving strap; - cast iron 34 inch rigger wrought iron short shaft with 2 plumber blocks and brasses, bolts and nuts; - cast iron 10 inch spur nut and 22 inch morticed wheel with short crank arm and rod to drive wort pump; - cast iron carriage stay bolts and nuts, clutch shifting lever and guide; - 24 inch morticed spur wheel and 14 inch cast iron spur nut to drive malt rollers; - pair of cast iron malt crushing rollers with casing and framing and apparatus complete as fixed; - framed fir loading hopper to hold 7 quarters with slide and screen to malt rollers; - framed fir carriages to all machinery including bolts and nuts; - framing and traces to support malt hopper bolts and nuts; - hoisting tackle from arched vault consisting of wood jib and roller, sheaves, wheel, handle and rope as fixed in yard; - stout fir floor and joists of stage to copper side; - 2 hanging irons, stepping block hand rail and supports; - stepping plank from copper side to malt mill stay and hand rail; - 7 rail ladder; - fir stage to boiling back; - 6 step ladder; - hand rail and newel; - stout fir floor and joists to malt mill with framing bolts and nuts; - raised stage to loading hopper and 5 step ladder; - 20 step stout ladder; - fir floor and joists of stage round mash tun partly covered with lead including ledged cover of tun and lead nozzle; - fir stage by hop back; - fir grain shoot with hinges and chains, hand rai land support round opening; - fir bearers of boiling back, bolts and nuts and brick pier; - fir supports to safe under copper, cock and lining boards under hop back; - 12 step ladder from mash tun stage to brewhouse; - fir bearer of hop back and stage adjoining with iron column support; - fir bearer of mash tun stage and support; - 2 fir bearers of mash tun and an angle support; - cast iron support; - door to enclose arch of copper; - boarded enclosure of steam engine with ledged door, sliding shutters, lock and key and boarded ceiling; -7 fir bearers to coolers; - fir stepping stage on each side of coolers; - fir covers of working squares including shifting side boards in front; - fir yeast boarding round settling batches and divisions; - fir bearers and supports to refrigerator with stage and shifting boards in front; - long fir stepping plank on four brackets; - fir bearers and supports of settling batches, hanging carriages and 3 stout steps; - stout fir stage to working squares and settling batches including flap and hinges to cellar and a 5 step ladder; - stout 12 step ladder to cellar; - fir bearers and supports of stage to working squares; - fir bearers on piers, 11 cross pieces and 11 brick piers in arched cellar; - fir bearers on piers; - 10 cross pieces and 10 brick piers in other arched cellar; - 7 fir bearers to liquor back; - scalding copper as fixed in shed with lead curb furnace and brick setting including chimney shaft; - 2 brick piers and planks to hot liquor back; - 2 brick piers and planks to underback; - brick work to support working squares and under 3 vats; - 2 brick piers and planks to vat; - iron gas service pipe (about 110 feet) from Company's main to meter wit hcock and branch to meter in office with cock; - iron and metal gas tube to light brewhouse and tun room, malthouse, stables, harness room, engine house, yard and vaults and by underback over boiler, copper side and mash tun stage together about 500 feet with cocks, T pieces, unions and 25 burners, various; - glazed lamp with bracket iron fixed by liquor back in yard; - metal tubing (about 77 feet) from gas meter with cocks and 8 burners various, to light offices, scalding shed and cooperage, including standard with glass shade and branches to dwellinghouse with 5 burners and cocks Witness: - John Newton of Leighton Buzzard, solicitor

28 Oct 1864

From: 1864 To: 1864

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Procter, Joseph,
Terry, Edward,
Pettit, William Fossey,
Dancer, Thomas,
Greening, William,
Claridge, George,
Sayell, Mary Ann,
Simmons, Jesse,
Garside, John,
White, Charles,
Reed, James,
Bates, John,
Wheelers,
Newton, John

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