Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF41/1/4/8
  • Title
    Marked copy of printed Sale Catalogue with loose map; Estate known as Manor Farm, Beeston in parishes of Sandy and Northill. “very highly farmed by Messrs Jeeves”
  • Date free text
    Auction 15 Jul 1896
  • Production date
    From: 1858 To: 1896
  • Scope and Content
    Lot 1 brick and tiled freehold house, drawing room, dining and breakfast rooms, kitchen with self-feeding boiler, office, dairy, cellar and paved courtyard on 1st floor 5 bedrooms, hot cupboard, bath room with hot and cold water, WC, one attic greenhouse and vinery with pleasure garden and tennis lawn, vegetable and fruit garden adjoining homestead contains: nag stable, coach-house and loose boxes, range of cattle sheds and poultry houses, 6 stall stable with loft over several barns, partly fitted with onion lofts, open sheds, piggeries, cart shed and cattle yard, + paddock in rear Total 8 acre 23 perches And Manors of Beeston, Thorncott and Hatch, and Beeston with Caldecot, late Trumpington (right of way of 12 Ft for purchaser of Lot 2) Lot 2 garden ground (6 acres 1 rood 9 perches) “there is believed to be none better in the County” Lot 3 garden or building land frontage to road to Sandy Station (1 acre 3 roods) Lot 4 similar plot of same size Lot 5 similar plot (1 acre 2 roods 32 perches) Lot 6 garden ground (8 acres) Lot 7 plot (8 acres 3 roods) Lot 8 freehold holding with house with 2 sitting rooms, scullery, washhouse, brewhouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 storerooms, 2 attics, yard and barn (let to George Darnell) And 3 cottages in occupation of Frederick Sims, John Cooper and James Darnell with productive gardens and field of grass (4 acres 2 roods 29 perches) Brook End. long frontage to Hitchin Road. let for £32..10s per annum (grass in occupation of Messrs Jeeves) 2 small barns belong to tenants Lot 9 enclosure of accommodation or building ground (1 rood 33 perches) let to George Darnell at £2 per annum Lot 10 warehouse and implement shed with onion loft in occupation of Messrs Jeeves and George Darnell Lot 11 piece of garden land with frontage to Hitchin Road 2 acres 2 roods adjoining land let at £6 per acre Lot 12 similar plot of 2 acres 2 roods Lot 13 part of same field with frontage to Sandy Station 2 acres 3 roods 18 perches Lot 14 garden ground (5 acres) approach from Sandy Station Lot 15 similar plot of 6 acres Lot 16 similar plot of 6 acres Lot 17 similar plot of 10 acres Lot 18 similar plot of 10 acres Lot 19 plot suitable for small homestead (for which there is so much demand in the neighbourhood) Lot 20 land (5 acres) with right of way to Sandy Station Lot 21 10 acres of rich land Lot 22 4½ acres with right of way as in Lot 20 Lot 23 land (10 acres 1 rood 14 perches) Lot 24 garden land (7 acres) [Title starts with mortgage 1) Allen Jeeves (mortgagor) 2) Charles Thomas Heneage and William Powis] 6 Apr 1858
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