HF11/3/20

Printed sale catalogue (conditions of sale only survived in part). Auctioneers: Conder & Son. Vendors: Trustees of will of Samuel Benson. Solicitor W.T. Chapman. Sale at Swan Hotel, Biggleswade

2 Jul 1879

From: 1879 To: 1879

Lot 1: Church Street, Biggleswade: Stud built and tiled dwelling house with large and small shops, sitting room in front, lean to kitchen and sunk cellar, 3 bedrooms and attic. Yard with well and W.C.; brick and stud built and boarded warehouse, stable, blacksmith's shop with 2 warehouses and lofts over. Large yard in rear with garden and 2 long sheds at back on south side. Whole occupied site of 6071 feet. in tenure of Frederick White, ironmonger, and Miss Benson. estimated rentals £46 6s 0d per annum abuttments: south: Lot 2 and property of Mr Lisney north: Messrs Heath east: Lot 2. Right of way on south side as approach to Lots 2 & 3 and to the rear of the adjoining property of Mr Lisney Lot 2: Stud built and slated dwelling house with sunk cellar, 2 living rooms and 3 bedrooms, lean to brick built and slated kitchen, wood barn and closet; also 2 stud built and tiled cottages and yard adjoining, with barn to each and closet; brick and tiled outhouse next gateway entrance, pump and well of water and yard. Now in tenure of Miss Benson, Messrs Hyde and W. Covington. Estimated rentals £23 10s 0d per annum abuttments: west: Mr Lisney south: Mrs Handley east: Lot 3 north: frontage to right of way reserved from Church Street over the south side of Lot 1 Lot 3: 13 brick built and slated cottages, known as Benson's Row, situated near to Church Street. Each cottage has 6 rooms with cellar, garden to south side with ash pits; yard with 2 pumps and wells of water and range of 13 brick built and slate barns at the back; wash house and barrow way at the west end. Now in the tenures of Joseph Mantle, Richard Airton, Frederick Chambers, John Frost, George Roe, George Smith, James Allibone, John Albone, Joseph Hazell, Francis Vorley, William Smith, T. Walker and John Crouch, at rentals amounting to £98 10s 0d per annum abuttments: south: lot 4 north: property of Messrs Heath east: Chapel Field west: Lots 1 & 2 and property of Mrs Handley Lot 4: Brick and stud built and slated cottage with frontage on the east to the footpath to Chapel Field, containing 4 rooms, kitchen, cellar and barn and piece of garden at the back. In the tenure of Mrs Eliza Bailey at a rental of £8 10s 0d per annum abuttments: south: property of Mr Mickley west: Mrs Handley north: Lot 3 All 4 lots copyhold

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Benson, Samuel,
Chapman, William Thomas,
Conder & Son,
White, Frederick,
Benson,
Lisney,
Heath,
Hyde,
Covington, W,
Handley,
Mantle, Joseph,
Airton, Richard,
Chambers, Frederick,
Frost, John,
Roe, George,
Smith, George,
Allibone, James,
Albone, John,
Hazell, Joseph,
Vorley, Francis,
Smith, William,
Walker, T.,
Crouch, John,
Bailey, Eliza,
Mickley

sale particulars, BIGGLESWADE, specific auction sales, Biggleswade Church Street, blacksmiths, ironmonger, Biggleswade Bensons Row, Biggleswade Chapel Fields, Biggleswade Swan Hotel