• Reference
    HN2/PoF42
  • Title
    Sale particulars
  • Date free text
    14 May 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1844
  • Scope and Content
    Sale particulars - auctioneer: Gibbs & Sons; - sale at: Plume of Feathers, Leighton Buzzard; - sale by: mortgagees [Richard Deverell; John Deverell; Thomas Deverell; James Deverell; Caleb Deverell] solicitor: James James of Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire]; -printers: Gibbs of Aylesbury Lot 1: free inn called Plume of Feathers, Corn Market, Leighton Buzzard with "extensive frontage, with 2 parlors, convenient bar and tap-room, two kitchens and a cellar, and nine comfortable chambers; a detached market or assembly-room (of large dimensions), with corn-office and rooms under an entrance gateway from the street, leading to a long and very convenient yard, in which are a brewhouse and nine stables, with good lofts over; cart and waggon-sheds, warehouses, and other outbuildings, several of which were recently erected at very considerable expense" Lot 2: garden and "close of rich land with other offices and a cartway entrance from the back-lane. The whole is an undivided length of property from the street to the back-lane of upwards of 200 yards; is well supplied with water, and admirably calculated, from its central situation and extent, to carry on a large commercial concern" Leasehold property with Land Tax of £1/18/-. Conditions of sale note purchased by Charles Ridgway for £1,350.
  • Level of description
    item