Reference
LHE43
Title
Sale Catalogue of Luton Hoo Estate with plan details on house, Park Farm & West Hyde farm (incl Plan)
Date free text
12 Aug 1847
Production date
From: 1847 To: 1847
Scope and Content
Sale Catalogue (printed with plan) .Luton Hoo Estate [1550A] & 360 A in addit can make offer for whole estate of 3500 A and leave at least 2/3rds of purchase money on mortgage. Mansion as left by fire: ""fine suite of elegant reception rooms (perfectly uninjured) several capital bedrooms, dressing rooms water closets etc., inaddition to which are noble appartments & domestic offices that may be easily restored, the walls being sound & good"". ""Noble circular portico or colonnade of superb columns is also standing
which may be easily taken down (stone work being perfect) & re-erected on the North side, surplus materials worth several 1,000 pounds, ""less spacious & expensive than the original noble edifice"" Stabling uninjured - wholly detached Stalls for 12 Horses, boxes for hunters; Harness Room, standing for several carriages with coachmen's & Groom's Rooms. Hay & Corn Lofts.
Portion has been converted into temporary residence or shooting quarters. Mentions extensive walled gardens & gardener's house, outer slips, orchards etc ""pleasure gardens - considerable extent & great beauty & finely dressed in lawns & parterres with masses of shrubs, American Beds & Clumps, interspersed by walks & drives."" AND Park [50A] lake, ornamental & iron bridges
several carriage entrances to Park - with turf & gravelled roads to the Mansion - Lodges Keepers Cottages etc. Home or Park Farm, gardens, yds, Homestead:- barns, stabling, bullock Lodges, cow houses, granary, waggon lodges, sheds, piggaries tenant C. Thomson on Lease for 9 yrs from March 1846 - rent of £650 per ann, worth £800 AND West Hyde Farm (250A 1R 39P) tenant M Gutteridge £321.12s pa rent of 1550A nearly 600 are meadow & pasture, NB gardens 10A 1R 16P in tenancy of Mr. Funnell
& part of of park (North East Corner) occupance William Clarke [157A 2R 0P] £320 per ann - ""very low"", pt of park - Mr. Cole £40 per ann, Mr Deacon £16.5.0. per ann, Mr Plummer £8.10s.0d. per ann, all sharing 37A 0R 18P .Market tolls let to John Gray £85 per ann
(in hand Mansion pleasure gdns etc 24A LR 23P Woods 338A 1R 16P Woods adj West Hyde Farm 11A 2R 20P)
+ Plan (scanned) shows boundaries of Park. South Turnpike Road (present A6) West road past main entrance, North Luton - Wheathamstead Road. E. ptly road from N Abuttal via West Hyde Farm to A6. Solicitors Clark, Fynmore & Fladgate
of 43 Craven St, Strand. Daniel Smith & Son, Land Agents, Waterloo Place
Level of description
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