Reference
WE2304
Title
Printed Sale Catalogue (No plan), property of Joseph Sharpe
Date free text
25 Jun 1868
Production date
From: 1868 To: 1868
Scope and Content
Lot 1)
3 recently erected brick and tile freehold cottages, each contains 2 rooms below and 2 above with barn for each tenant and a large garden as now occupied by John Sinfield, John Hill and George Gee at rents which total £13..10s under quarterly tenancies
Frontage 38 ft including passage at north side over which occupiers of Lot 2 have right of way and use of well
Total area 36 perches, purchaser to fence against Lot 2
Lot 2)
4 brick and tile cottages of similar size and barn for each tenant and large garden at back and right of way over passage and use of well (see Lot 1). Tenants Susan Britten, Thomas Kirby and others.
Annual Rent £18 per annum, quarterly tenancies
frontage 48 ft
Total area 44 perches, purchaser to fence against Lot 3
Lot 3)
(adjoining Lot 2)
6 brick and tile cottages:-each containing 2 rooms below and 2 above, 1 having an extra room, barn for each tenant and large garden at back.
tenants: John Brown, Thomas Richardson, William Garner and others.
annual rental £27..10s, quarterly tenancies
On 82 ft frontage
Total area 56 perches, purchase to fence against Lot 5 at the back. a right of way is reserved over Lot 4, 12 ft wide and 104 ft deep
Lot 4)
6 brick and tile cottages, each contains 2 rooms below and 2 above, with barn for each tenant and large garden.
tenants John Sinfield, Daniel Richardson, William Web and others.
Annual rental £27, quarterly tenancies, frontage 92 ft.
Total area 28 perches, purchaser to fence against Lot 5
subject to right of way by owners and occupiers of Lots 3 and 5
(above cottages are very substantially built, most of them having been erected within a few years, are well fitted with grates, cupboards etc. to pass with the freehold)
Lot 5)
substantially built messuage in 3 tenements with 4 rooms below and 5 above with spacious garden and barn for each tenant.
And at a short distance from it another messuage in 2 tenements each containing 1 room below and 1 above with barn to each and very fertile and extensive plot of garden ground occupied by Leonard Richardson, Thomas Richardson, George Stanford, Edward Smith and William Brown at annual rent of £21 “very low” (1 acre 16 perches)
Lot 6)
Building land (freehold) at a short distance from above properties on 95 ft frontage to road to Haynes and Bedford (66 perches).
let to John Morris for £2 per annum under lease expiring Lady Day 1869
Lot 7)
“Recently erected and very substantially built” brick and tile dwelling house containing entrance passage, parlour, living room, kitchen (ground floor); cellar and 3 bedrooms.
adjoining:- a blacksmith’s shop, shoeing shed and coal store in new street leading from Dunstable Street with 30 ft frontage and a side frontage to Sanders Piece Road of 90 ft. (55 ft of which is available for building and average depth of 94 ft) and garden now in occupation of William Frisby, blacksmith.
rent of £14
Auctioneer George Greene, Solicitor Handscomb of Ampthill. Auction held at Kings Arms, Ampthill
With Contract Note for purchase of Lot 1 by William Course of Northill for £190
Level of description
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