Scope and Content
The particulars include a highly detailed layout plan of the lots to be sold and has, on the front cover, a photograph of half timbered, tiled cottages [probably Lot 16 below].
Property (which always includes details of Vicarial Tithe, Land Tax, acreages of component parts of lots, annual rent and descriptions of houses, barns etc.):
- Lot 1 - 5/3/37 smallholding in the Rye including a two storied dwelling house, outbuildings, two grass orchards and an arable field let to Jeffery Archer;
- Lot 2 – two storied dwelling house on the high road at the north of the village with outbuildings and grass orchard let to Jeffery Tearle;
- Lot 3 – Comp Farm of 13/1/23 including a farm house, barns, pasture and arable land let to W.E.Wallace;
- Lot 4 – smithy adjoining Lot 3 including dwelling house, forge, garden and grass orchard let to George Brown;
- Lot 5 – 10/0/30 small holding next to The White Horse Public House and including a dwelling house, outbuildings, grass orchard and two meadows let to Nathaniel Tearle [includes photograph of house];
- Lot 6 – picturesque two storied cottage opposite Lot 5 with a garden of 39 poles let to H.Cheshire;
- Lot 7 – 7/0/18 small holding at Eaton Green on south side of the road to Billington including dwelling house, farm buildings, two grass orchards and a meadow let to Alfred Tearle;
- Lot 8 – 3/2/27 small holding on north side of Billington road including dwelling house, outbuildings, orchard and meadow land let to W.Gadsden;
- Lot 9 – Rye Farm of 104/3/3 including homestead, farm premises, pasture and arable land let to Jeffrey Sharratt and 26/1/8 of meadow land let to Gaius Batchelar [includes photograph of house and barns];
- Lot 10 – Old Ley Farm of 139/2/23 including picturesque residence, farm premises and pasture and arable land let to Gaius Batchelar and 28/1/33 of meadow land let to Gaius Batchelar [includes photograph of farm house and barn];
- Lot 11 – Park Farm of 338/0/17 including superior residence, farm premises, pasture and arable land let to Gaius Batchelar with Lordship of the Manor of Eaton Bray [includes photograph of farm house];
- Lot 12 – Eaton Bray Lodge freehold cottage residence or hunting box with a grass orchard let to J.C.Saunders [includes photograph of Lodge and stables];
- Lot 13 – Church Farm of 48/2/38 including ancient half timbered house, farm premises, grass orchard, pasture and arable land let to Mrs.W.Ruffett and sold subject to a sewer easement [includes photograph of house];
- Lot 14 – dwelling house on Northall Road with a garden and let to T.J.Deverell;
- Lot 15 – three cottages, one known as The Retreat, with two gardens and let to Joseph Hebbes, William Henley and the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire;
- Lot 16 – range of three cottages in Church Lane, opposite the church, with gardens and let to Ernest Brandom, William Proctor and Edward Groom [photograph on the front is probably this terrace of cottages];
- Lot 17 – cottage and enclosure of pasture totalling 1/3/15;
- Lot 18 – two enclosures of accommodation pasture and arable land totalling 6/3/35 on NW side of School Lane and let to William Kempson;
- Lot 19 – enclosure of accommodation pasture land of 1/1/24 let to William Kempson;
- Lot 20 – Moor End Farm of 122/2/13 including house, farm premises and pasture and arable land let to Fred Bates with a 2 rood garden let to Bedfordshire County Council, sold subject to the right of villagers of Eaton Bray to use the sheep wash;
- Lot 21Yew Tree Farm of 156/3/0 including a residence, farm premises, orchard, pasture and arable lands let to Jeffrey Sharratt, sold subject to a sewer easement [includes photograph of residence];
- Lot 22 – grass orchard of 1 rood 23 poles opposite School Lane with a building frontage on the village main street and let to Jabez Thorn;
- Lot 23 – small holding of 2/1/36 on Edlesborough road at Moor End including cottage, outbuildings, garden, orchard and pasture land let to C.Brigginshaw;
- Lot 24 – corner plot of garden ground of building land of 37 poles on the junction of Leighton Buzzard and Edlesborough roads at Moor End;
- Lot 25 – picturesque cottage with accommodation pasture or building land at Moor End on Edlesborough road totalling 1/1/15, cottage let to Miss Mary Mead and land to Frederick Tearle, sold subject to sewer easement [includes photograph of house];
- Lot 26 – Moor End Mill including premises, corn mill, farm premises, meadow and arable land totalling 25/2/23 let to James Bunker until Michaelmas 1916 when possession could be obtained;
- Lot 27 - 3/0/21 of accommodation, pasture or building land opposite Moor End Mill let to James Bunker and sold subject to sewer easement;
- Lot 28 – Abbey House on Edlesborough Road including outbuildings, grass orchard and garden let to Henry Howe [includes photograph of house];
- Lot 29 – dwelling house, commercial premises and grass orchard next to Three Counties Mill let to Alfred Thorne;
- Lot 30 – 1/2/39 of accommodation pasture land fronting the Hemel Hempstead road and Totternhoe road;
- Lot 31 – 49/1/8 of allotment gardens and arable land fronting Hemel Hempstead road and let to Miss Buckmaster;
- Lot 32 – 6/0/19 enclosure of accommodation arable land adjacent to Lot 31 and near Doolittle Mill and let to Miss Buckmaster;
- Lot 33 – 4/1/4 enclosure of arable land at junction of Hemel Hempstead and Edlesborough roads and let to Benjamin Gray;
- Lot 34 – 2 acre allotment of arable land abutting the Dunstable road about two miles from Eaton Bray and let to H.T.Gurney;
- Lot 35 – perpetual rent charge of £13/0/11 arising out of three enclosures of allotment gardens abutting Billington and Leighton Buzzard road and adjoining Lots 10, 13 and 21
Solicitors:
- Lawrence Graham & Co. of 6 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London;
- Pennington & Son of 64 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London;
- Ashurst, Morris & Crisp & Co. of 17 Throgmorton Avenue, London
Auctioneer: Joseph Stower of 43 Chancery Lane, London;
auction taking place at The Swan Hotel, Leighton Buzzard
Land Agent: Arthur W.Merry of 17 High Street, Leighton Buzzard