Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue

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Z1510/1/16
Title
Sale catalogue for the Cranfield Court Estate, Bedfordshire. To be sold at auction by Messrs Walton & Lee at the Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, Bank, London.
Date free text
24 Sept 1885
Production date
From: 1885 To: 1885
Scope and Content
Duplicate copy of BS781 retained because map & main catalogue in better condition. Front cover badly damaged. Black and white etching of south west elevation A very elegant family mansion comprising 1868 acres, 3 r 18p. To be sold in numerous lots. Lot 1: Beautiful & elaborate residence called Cranfield Court with extensive pleasure grounds, stabling & park, the Bury or Home Farm, Woodend Farm, part of Townsend Farm, numerous cottages and valuable woodland extending to 403 acres 0r 30p. Mansion erected in French Gothic style; entrance gates; the Lodge; carriage drive; park of 60 acres. Full description of residence consisting of vestibule; grand hall; staircase hall; black & white etching of south east elevation; grand staircase; drawing room; saloon; library; dining room; billiard room; inner hall; study or smoking room; chapel. Bed chamber floor: dressing room; bedroom; mahogany bedroom; octagon bedroom; dressing room; tower bedroom; tower dressing room; inserted plan of ground floor rooms; seven medium sized bedrooms; elegant boudoir or dressing room. A stone staircase leads to nine servants bedrooms, and the Tower room with truly superb views. On the ground foloor: domestic offices, court yard; dry cellars. Water supply & gas is laid on. Stabling. Pleasure grounds with tennis courts, kitchen garden, fernery, flower garden, terrace, croquet or tennis lawn, rustic ummer house. Kitchen gardens include two large peach houses, cucumber house, melon house, four succession vineries stocked with Black hamburg & West St Peter’s Vines, conservatory. Head Gardeners house, two excellent newly erected cottages, keeper’s house, 3 dog kennels, carpenter’s shop. Bury or Home farm consisting o f 53 a 0r 3p let to Mr J Bradshaw on a yearly tenancy at £76 per annum. Woodend Farm with newly erected residence, old farm house and valuable brick yard consisting of 151a 0r 25p let to Mr William Ellis on a yearly tenancy at £140 per annum. Part of Townsend Farm 57 a 3r 17p of arable & pasture let to Mrs Mary Ann Bliss on a yearly tenancy at £72.5. per annum. Eleven cottages with gardens, three kitchen gardens & a coach house with the total rental value being £41.5s.0d. Tenants include: Henry Lineham, George White, John Cook, George Pain, John Lovsey, James Warren, George Mooring, William Batterson, William George, Frederick Titmas, Mrs Odell. Lot 2 Six cottages & gardens in Cranfield villages nearly opposite Townsend farmhouse, rents amounting to £27.6.0 per annum. Tenants include George Baker, George Warren, Thomas George, Joseph Clarke, Mary A Fountain, William Waring. Lot 3 Brogborough Manor Farm consisting of a dwelling hopuse & farm buildings adjoining, a short distance from the house are a set of buildings known as Top Farm. The lot extends to 371 acres 2r 9p. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Let with the exception of Brogborough Spinney to Mrs George Thomason at a rental of £400 per annum. Lot 4 North Common Farm, consisting of farmhouse & outbuildings, two cottages with gardens, 3 acres of woodland. The lot extends to 188acres 2r 33p. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Let until Michaelmas to Mr Joseph Daniells at an annual rental of £215 and after that to J Williamson at a rental of £180 a year. Lot 5 Townsend Farm & Grove Farm. The homestead is in Cranfield village, the lands on the north side of the road from Cranfield to Moulsoe. Farm house & farm buildings, good bailiffs or labourers house. Lot consists of 105 acres 3r 7p. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Part let to Mrs Mary Ann Bliss at a yearly tenancy £87 per annum; part let to John W Jellies on a yearly tenancy at £43 per annum. Lot 6 Wharley End Farm. Comprising farm house, outbuildings, arable land. 124 sacres 3r 12p annual rental of £150. Principal tenant is Mr John W Jellies, with small allotments let to Samuel Howe, Henry Lineham and Ed White. Lot 7 Agricultural Land known as The Acres. Consisting of 106acres 0r 13p. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Let to Mr John W Jellies on a yearly tenancy for £53 per annum. Lot 8 Hurst End Farm, North Crawley. Consisting of capital residence, farmery, labourers cottage & garden, and Coldhams Fields the whole embracing an area of 412acres 3r 34p. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Farmed by the present owner’s Steward but moderate rental estimate is £400 per annum. Three fields let to Mr William Daniels £10 per anum. Lot 9 Brook Farm, Bourne End, Cranfield. Dwelling house, farm buildings, kitchen garden and Bourne End School and House with playground. Whole area is 71 acres 0r 20p List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Let to Mr Frank Kingston on a yearly tenancy for £86.9.0 per annum Three gardens let to Charles knight, John Bettle & Fred wWright amounting to £91.17.4. per annum. Lot 10 Three enclosures known as East End Closes on the road from Cranfield to Bedford. Extending to 27 acres 2r 35p let to Mr B J Bradshaw on a yearly tenancy for £44 per annum. Lot 11 Three valuable meadows known as East End Closes extending to 21 acres 3r 5p. Let to Mr William Bailey on a yearly tenancy at a rental of £45 per annum. Lot 12 Two enclosures of meadow land called Red Lion Fields aith 6 cottages & gardens an area of 6 acres 2 r 19 p producing a total rental of £48.17.0 per annum. Tenants include Reverend H Birley, John White, William Parker, E Lovsey, M Odell, G Bilton, E Millard, J Hudson. Lot 13 Seven Cottages 7 gardens known as Mill Field Cottages in Cranfield Village. Annual rental of £27.12.0. Tenants include: Thomas Row, Mrs Parkes, George White, Ed Garner, J George, J Garner, J Millard. Lot 14 Dwelling house in Cranfield village facing the church. Rental of £10.10.0 per annum. Tenants Mr Clegg (garden) & Mrs Flint (house & garden). Lot 15 Three enclosures of meadow land. 27 acres 0 r 20p. Tartletts close let to Mrs M A Bliss for £16.10.0 per annum. Hooks Sward & Meadow let to H E Birley for £35 per annum. Lot 16 The Advowson and next and perpetual right of Presentation to the Rectory of Cranfield, including valuable agricultural property extending to about 704 acres 2 r 0p. of the value of upwards of £1000 per annum. The Rectory with 6 bedrooms, 4 servants bedrooms, domestic offices, gardens, conservatory, ornamental sheet of water, orchard, walled kitchen garden, stables, out buildings. The Schools are well built and will contain 250 children. Large reading room. Schoolmaster’s house.. Estimated rental value £300 per annum. Rectory Farm, excellent residence & outbuildings. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. 177 acres, 3r, 32p. Let to H E Birley for £158.19.0 per annum. Glebe Farm, with farm hose, outbuildings. List of fields with description & state of cultivation. Until recently held by James Day for £126 per annum. Arable land allotted to small occupiers consisting of 192 acres 1r 36p rents mounting to £277.10.9 per annum. Numerous accommodation holdings extending to 206acres 3r 2d consisting of sound arable land and an orchard in Cranfield village producing a rental of about £325.13.2. Tenants include Mr Bayley, Mr Bliss, W Warren, T Lovell, Mr Lorton, William Ellis, John White, Thomas Johnson Coloured plan showing lots as above.
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