Reference
PM/W/9
Title
Printed Sale Catalogue. Property to be sold by order of the Executors of Frederick Gee senior to be auctioned at Swan Hotel, Biggleswade. Solicitors a) Hooper and Fletcher b) Hawkins and Company. Auctioneers a) Protheroe and Morris, 67 and 68 Cheapside, London; b) F W Western and Company of Biggleswade and Sandy. MISSING - SEE DETAIL IN CATALOGUE
Date free text
2 Apr 1930
Production date
From: 1930 To: 1930
Scope and Content
Lot 1
Semi-detached pre war freehold residence called 43 London Road, Biggleswade
Top Floor: Light landing with sink, 2 attic bedrooms, and store cupboard
First Floor: 2 bedrooms, one communicating with dressing room, bathroom with stove, fitted bath with geyser, lavatory basin, separate WC, linen cupboard
Ground Floor: Drawing Room, Dining Room, Kitchen and scullery, 2 large and dry cellars, outside WC and store.
Property 28 ft frontage and garden to rear let on quarterly agreement at rental of £40 per annum
Tenant paying outgoings and does interior decorations
(Abstract of Title to start with Conveyance of 3 March 1874)
Lot 2
Elm Farm, Caldecote, Northill fronts road, built on 2 floors and contains 5 bedrooms, large bathroom, 2 sitting rooms, 2 kitchens, large larder, wash-house, store room and loft over, WC outside, main water.
Outbuildings consist of:-
a) range of brick and slated root and coal stores
b) timber built and thatched roof 4-stall stable
c) timber built open cattle shed and onion store over
d) 2 pigstyes and boiler house
e) large timber and stucco with corrugated iron roof barn
f) corrugated iron four bay open cart shed
g) old timber built barn and 2 other sheds
h) brick built three roomed bungalow cottage (let to a service tenant)
TOTAL of 20¼ acres
OS No 319a:- 5 acres 15 perches
OS No 319 part:- 5 acres 2 roods 19 perches
OS No 321:- 1 acre 3 roods 6 perches
OS No 322:- 6 acres 1 rood 34 perches
OS 325 part House and buildings 1 rood 20 perches
OS 326 Buildings and grass 3 roods 31 perches
20 acres 1 rood 5 perches
Liability to maintain fence on W side
Frontage of 660 feet to Main Road from London to North
“affording an important advertising medium”
E boundary River Ivel
Abstract of Title starts with conveyance of 29 September 1922
Lots 3-12
Marston Farm, Caldecote in parish of Northill
adjoining Lot 2) on Main Road from London to the North.
Some “of the best Market Garden Land in this Locality well adapted for intensive culture or the erection of glasshouses”
Footpath shown on plan – now widened into a hard road.
Vacant possession but vendors reserve right to remove crops up to Midsummer
Lot 3
enclosure of Market Garden Land [2 acres 1 rood 7 perches], frontage of 260 feet to the Main Road
Lot 4
Adjoining enclosure [2 acres 24 perches] with frontage of 300 feet to the Main Road and a return frontage to the Farm Road
Lot 5
Adjoining enclosure [2 acres 3 roods 23 perches] with frontage of 200 feet to the Main Road and a return frontage to the Farm Road
Lot 6
Adjoining enclosure [2 acres 2 roods 6 perches] with frontage of 200 feet to the Main Road
Lot 7
Enclosure of Market Garden land in the rear of lots 5 and 6, frontage of 320 feet and an area of 3acres 3 roods 5 perches
Lot 8
adjoining enclosure, frontage to Farm Road of 330 feet and an area of 4 acres 1 rood 37 perches
Lot 9
The Triangular Enclosure with a long frontage to Farm Road and an area of 5 acres 1 rood 5 perches with a large timber and corrugated iron barn with loft over
Lot 10
Enclosure of Market Garden land with a frontage to Farm Road and an area of 10 acres 2 roods 36 perches including large gravel pit
Lot 11
Adjoining enclosure, frontage to Farm Road, (6 acres 1 rood 24 perches)
Lot 12
Adjoining enclosure having access from the Farm Road and an area of 6 acres 2 roods 8 perches
(Abstract of Title of lots 3-12 starts with conveyance 21 December 1900)
Lot 13
Furzen Hall Farm, Biggleswade
occupying a high position adjoining “well known Biggleswade Common and overlooking the noted Sandy Hills”. River Ivel and golf course in easy reach. Cambridgeshire Foxhounds meet nearby.
- Modern – approached from Main Road to Potton by a good metal road,
consists of:-
Top Floor: 2 maids’ bedrooms, 2 boxrooms, Tank room
First Floor: 4 bedrooms, dressing room, bathroom with fitted bath (hot and cold supplies) lavatory basin (hot and cold supplies) linen cupboard and water closet
Ground Floor: Entrance Hall, drawing and dining rooms, Breakfast room with office adjoining, large kitchen with range and dresser, scullery with copper and sink, pantry, large cellarage, telephone
Outside:- Range of brick and tiled-roof buildings comprising dairy, coal store and 2 water closets.
AND modern outbuildings, built of brick with slate roofs:
a) stabling for 8 horses
b) cowshed with 20 stalls
c) piggeries and boiling house
d) chaff house
e) spacious seed barn
f) mixing shed
g) granary
h) 2 brick and slated stack yards with cattle shelters
i) timber and corrugated iron cartshed and garage
AND pair of cottages, built of brick with slated roofs, each containing 2 bedrooms, small attic, sitting room, kitchen and scullery. Water closet outside. Gardens back and front. Let to service tenants.
TOTAL area of the property (126 acres)
OS 392a Haynes Corner 3 roods
OS 426 Round Hill 32 acres 1 rood 15 perches
OS427 (grass) 4 acres 2 roods 37 perches
OS 429 cottages and gardens 1 rood 23 perches
OS 430 Buildings 1 acre 2 roods 28 perches
OS 431 Residence and garden 1 rood 12 perches
OS 432 (grass) 11 acres 1 rood 27 perches
OS 433 Tomlins Corner 55 acres 2 roods 20 perches
OS 391 Elm Field 18 acres 3 roods 13 perches
Notes Round Hill Field “would form an admirable site for factory premises as it adjoins London and North East Railway main line from London to the North and is adjacent to Bedford Cambridge Branch of London Midland and Scottish Railway”
Elm Field, as it has frontage to Hard Road, very suitable for sub division into smaller holdings for erecting glasshouses.
Tithe paid for 1929 was £34..17s (Rectorial) and £13..16s (Vicarial)
Vendor has Fen Rights over Biggleswade Common for 32 cattle, 8 horses and 150 sheep
includes rights of way to and from the Potton Road
+ PLAN
NB Lot 13 is sold by Frederick Gee’s executors as Mortgagee.
NB subject to Deed of Disentail of WILSHERE estates of 1906 2 Apr 1930
NB on the Domesday Valuation Map and Award of 1910 Furzen Hall Farm is given as being in the ownership of Miss Wilshere and the occupation of Frederick Gee
Level of description
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