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RR15/13
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Property: Cockayne Hatley Estate. Agents Humbert Son & Flint.
Date free text
17 Nov 1897
Production date
From: 1897 To: 1897
Scope and Content
Lot 1 - Historic Family Mansion 'most substantially erected, partly in stone and partly in brick, covered with slates and tiles, and is of picturesque elevation....approached by a carriage drive through Lodge entrance, and is surrounded by a handsomely timbered park, pleasure grounds and lawns.' Ground floor - entrance hall, justice room, dining room, inner hall, drawing room, boudoir, smoking room, morning room or library, billiard room, domestic offices of servants' hall, kitchen, scullery, butler's pantry, housekeeper's room, footman's room, brush room, two larders, dairy, bakehouse, laundry, stove, lamp room and wcs. Basement - wine and beer cellars. First floor - 11 bedrooms. Secondary bedrooms of two menservants' rooms and five maidservants' rooms. Stable yard, small farmery, pleasure grounds, conservatory, kitchen garden, ornamental sheet of water, 60 acres of park, woods 97a 3r 29p. - Eleven Cottages and the manor of Cockayne Hatley. The mansion (partly furnished) and shooting is in the occupation of the Marquis of Granby at an annual rent of £335 per annum lease expires 1st February 1898. - Small holdings include - entrance lodge and yard, William Bates, yearly tenant, cottages and carpenters shop, Hugh Barnes and Obed. Masters, yearly tenants, 3 cottages and schoolhouse, Henry Taylor, Amos King, William Saunders, and the rector yearly tenants. 3 cottages Rebecca Lexton, Jacob Wootton, John Bird, yearly tenants, Two cottages David Garrett and William Dazeley, yearly tenants. - Church Farm in the occupation of Charles Capon as yearly tenant at rental of £161 10s, total 323 a 0r 3p. - Village Farm in the occupation of George Edwards and John Banks for one year, 234 a 1r 17p. Mill Headen arable 31a 2r 7p in occupation of Thomas Brim. - Hill Farm in the occupation of Nimrod Follbigg yearly tenant 261 a 3r 4p. - Wood Farm in the occupation of Charles Robert and John Banks for one year 236a 2r 13p. Total 1,237a 1r 37p. Lot 2 (to be sold with lot 1) - Wrestlingworth Farm 285a 1r 27p including 6 cottages. In the occupations of J B and C Banks, Elizabeth Bartle, Jesse Chessum, Arthur Olliver, Samuel Brim, William Humberstone, Josh. Oliver, Mrs Oliver. One third undivided share of the Manor of Wrestlingworth. Lot 3- 3 brick cottages 1a 0r 2p in Wrestlingworth in the occupations of W Holben, Arthur Dazeley and Joseph Bates. Lot 4 - Garden or building land 1a 0r 26p in Wrestlingworth now in the occupation of Joseph Oliver. Lot 5 - Paddock 1a 0r 7p in occupation of Joseph Oliver. Lot 6 - Freehold house in Wrestlingworth in the occupation of G N Humberstone 2r 21p. Lot 7 - Advowson and right of next presentation to the rectory of Cockayne Hatley subject to the life of present Incumbent, the Rev E Brickwell. The population of the parish consists only of the tenants and labourers on the estate comprised in Lot 1. Plan.
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