Scope and Content
Sale Particulars:
- auctioneer: G, Greene;
- at the Bedford Arms Hotel, Woburn;
- solicitors Routh & Stacey of 14 Southampton Street, London.
Lot 1: a handsome Modern substantially built Brick and Slate Mansion or Gentleman’s Residence” called Woodlands House [Aspley Hill] with:
- on the ground floor: three large reception rooms (two with French windows opening onto the lawn); library; bathroom; store room; W. C.;
- first floor: five bedrooms;
- basement level with kitchen garden with kitchen and “convenient domestic offices”, servants’ bedroom and cellarage;
- paved court yard with a two stall stable with man’s room over; double coachhouse; harness room; well and large soft water tank with force pump;
- conservatory;
- pleasure grounds;- walled-in kitchen garden with fruit trees;
- enclosed farm yard with cattle shed, barn, cowhouse;
- two paddocks;
- right of way for owners of lots 4 and 5;
- sited in upwards of five acres.
Lot 2: a compact, detached villa adjoining Lot 1 and known as Woodfield House [Weathercock Lane] and comprising an porch, dining room, drawing room and breakfast room, kitchen, back lobby and large scullery with cellar and, on the first floor, four bedrooms, a dressing room and W. C. In the yard was a pantiled board and stud range comprising two wood barns, a workshop or warehouse measuring 28 feet by 17 feet 6 inches with a room of the same size over, a two stall stable with a loft over and a two bay cart shed. There was also a garden, soft water tank, pump and well all set in 2 roods, 18 poles.
Lot 3: a builders yard, workshop, garden and premises [Aspley Hill] let to R. Jackson for 14 years from 1866 at £12 per annum, with a frontage of 114 feet and area of 1 rood, 8 poles and including a brick and tile dwelling house with entrance lobby, parlour, living room, kitchen and nail room with two bedrooms above
Lot 4: The Lodge [Aspley Hill] with entrance passage, dining room, drawing room, kitchen, pantry and scullery on the ground floor, four bedrooms and a dressing room above. Outside was a stable yard with stable, loose box with a chamber over and garden, in the occupation of Frederick Holmes at £30 rent per annum for 7 years from 1867. Also the adjoining house called Sidney Cottage with entrance passage, two parlours, breakfast room, front kitchen, larder and back kitchen with five bedrooms above, a wood barn, yard and garden outside and an adjoining cottage with two rooms up and down, coal house, yard and garden. The last premises let to Richard Evans at £8 per annum. Total frontage for the lot of 126 feet, depth of 122 feet and area of 1 rood, 19 poles.
Lot 5: Two semi-detached houses called Aspley Cottages [Aspley Hill] each with an entrance lobby, living room, parlour, back kitchen and two large bedrooms with coal barn, yard and garden in the occupation of Miss Bartram and John Mead at a combined rent of £23/14/- per annum, a frontage of 53 feet, depth of 122 feet and area of 23 poles.
Lot 6: An accommodation close of pasture [Weathercock Lane] called Boundary Field [being on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border] eligible for building and containing 2 acres, 3 roods, 36 poles and let to John Giles at £12 per annum
Lot 7: An accommodation close of sward, market gardening land or building land [Aspley Hill] of 3 acres, 1 rood, 15 poles and let to John Collins Baker at £14 per annum for 7 years from 1866
Lot 8: An accommodation close of sward, market gardening land or building land [Aspley Hill] of 3 acres, estimated rent £12 per annum
Lot 9: An accommodation close of sward, market gardening land or building land [Aspley Hill] of 3 acres, estimated rent £12 per annum
Lot 10: An accommodation close of sward, market gardening land or building land [Aspley Hill] of 2 acres, 30 poles, estimated rent £12 per annum
Lot 11: An accommodation close of sward, market gardening land or building land [Aspley Hill] of 3 acres, 2 roods and an adjoining enclosure of 1 acre, 1 rood, 16 poles with larch and other fir trees, estimated rent £17 per annum.
Lot 12: A close of market gardening land or building land [Aspley Heath] in the occupation of Hammond at £2 per annum with an area of 1 acre, 1 rood.
Lot 13: A close of market gardening land or building land [Aspley Hill] containing 2 acres, 2 roods, 20 poles.
“beneath the last two lots doubtless are strata of valuable Fullers’ earth, which would amply repay any speculator for getting out, as a ready sale at remunerative prices can always be found”.
Endorsed with a note that Joseph George Fisher of Kempston had purchased Lot 13 for £170.