Reference
RH9/1
Title
Sale Catalogue; Honour of Ampthill and 3,728 acres: estimated rental £4,600 p.a.
For sale by Messrs Driver at auction market near the bank of England, 1841 in one lot
Date free text
1841
Production date
From: 1841 To: 1841
Scope and Content
By means of Birmingham Railroad .... this magnificent Estate and Residence may be most easily and safely reached within Three Hours from the Metropolis;
It comprises an elegant mansion house, well adapted for any nobleman’s family .... most delightfully seated on an eminence, with most pleasing undulated Scenery, remarkably richly ornamented with peculiarly fine stately timber and valuable plantations, and the much-admired ruins of Houghton Mansion.
pg.3 Ampthill House [lists rooms and outbuildings]
pg.4 The Farm Buildings; premises in Hand [ giving number on plan, description, state of cultivation, quantity]
pg.6 Houghton Park Farm, The Lodge Farm
pg.7 Brickhill Pastures Farm, Conquestbury Farm
pg.8 Road Farm
pg.9 How End Manor Farm, How End Farm
pg.11 Pillinge Farm, Mill Farm
pg.12 Millbrook Upper farm
[P. 6-12 gives names of tenants and rent; number on plan, description, state of cultivation, quantity and description of farm-house and other buildings]
pg.14 Ossory Arms Inn
pg.15 Cottages and Gardens [gives number on plan, name of tenant, description and quantity]
pg.18 Summary of above
pg.19 Outgoings
PLAN of estate, scale approximately, 5¼¨to one mile
[one or two minor alterations have been made by hand]
[This catalogue and 9 copies were tied together and labelled Vol. V. bundle 1 no.362]
Russell 'wallpaper books' (Vol. V. no.261 pg.201)
Level of description
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