HF41/2/19/22

Printed Sales Notice

20 Aug 1884

From: 1884 To: 1884

Lot 1) Freehold dwelling house with butcher’s shop on 232 feet frontage to High Street in about centre of village of Langford, frontage of 108 feet to Water Lane; brick and slated dwelling house of “modern erection” including butcher’s shop, small entrance with staircase, 5 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms, kitchen (fitted with Flavell’s Patent Kitchener, deleted) plate rack and 8 -, larder closet under stairs and partly sunk cellar on N. side walled in yard with gateway entrance from the front street, in which are brick built and tiled slaughter house filled with copper, pulleys etc., stable and 2 fasting pens and larger stable, brick built and pantiled shed, coal place and store shed. Pump and well of water on S. side of house, flower and kitchen garden walled on all sides, with brick built and pantiled private closet let to Arthur Swinscoe or undertenant R T Berry at £20 per annum rent abutting S. property of James Rutt E. lots 2 and 3 NE. Water Lane W. High Street wall at back of sheds and store sold as joint property of lots1 and 2. (kitchen range and blinds property of tenant) Lot 2) 7 freehold cottages containing 4 rooms in rear of and adjoining lot 1, abutting Water Lane on 98 feet 6 inches frontage. And range of brick built and pantiled out offices consisting of 7 barns, 2 private closets and 6 pigsties, pump and well of water, subject to joint use of owner and tenants of lot 3, wall joint property with lot 1 gateway entrance between this and lot 3 to be equally divided. cottages occupied by widow Dear, Henry Maskall, Miles Clark, William Champkin, widow Ray, William Bryant and Frederick Stimson (rents £38..10s per annum), cottages in good repair abutting W. lot 1 SE. lot 3 NE. Water Lane Lot 3) 5 similar freehold cottages adjoining lot 2 and 1, frontage of 71 feet 6 inches to Water Lane (4 rooms each) and piece of garden. In rear out offices (as in lot 2) consisting of 5 barns, 2 private closets and 6 pigsties and 2 detached private closets, joint rights on pump and well and gateway see above. cottages now in occupation of widow Clark, William Rogers, John Dilley, Peter Sale and John Sale (rental of £27..10s per annum) abutting N. lot 2 W. lot 1 S. property by James Rutt NE. Water Lane Lot 4) Freehold in Leys Road, Langford, brick built and slated dwelling house (5 bedrooms, entrance passage with staircase, sitting room, living room, kitchen) front shop with good window and meal room or flour shop. bakehouse adjoining fitted with 16 bushel coal oven and loft over, separate approach to bakehouse through small paved yard between house and bakehouse pump and well in yard subject to joint use by lot 5 adjoining bakehouse is covered gateway entrance with pair of folding doors and loft over with brick built and slated cart shed, coal and potato stores and washhouse (fitted with copper and fire place) adjoining in rear on 2 sides of which are brickbuilt and tiled outbuildings viz. stable, cowhouse, piggeries, henhouse and open cart sheds and partly enclosed yard for stock, with flower and kitchen garden partly at side of house next road, with handgate from same. In occupation of J C Walker (rentals of £44 per annum) “This lot presents in every way an attractive and profitable investment, there is a capital business connection which is capable of further extension as the premises are fitted with every convenience for conducting a large trade...” (for a different look on the “capital business” see HF41/2/19/16) “substantial repair – large outlay during last few years” Lot 5) 2 brick built and slated freehold cottages, 4 rooms each (next lot 4) frontage of 28 feet 6 inches to Leys Road. in rear approached by barrow way is yard and 2 timber built and slated barns and private closets. joint use of pump and well on lot 4 let to Mrs Kemp and Mary Ray at rentals of £10 per annum abutting W. and S. lot 4 E. property of – Auctioneers: Conder and Son 20 August 1884 Contract note for purchase of lot 1 for £400 by Robert Thomas Berry of Hitchin Street, Biggleswade, butcher

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Hooper & Fletcher,
Powers, Charles,
Charles Powers and Co.,
Swinscoe, Arthur Richard,
Berry, Robert Thomas,
Rutt, James,
Dear,
Maskall, Henry,
Clark, Miles,
Champkin, William,
Ray,
Bryant, William,
Stimson, Frederick,
Clark,
Rogers, William,
Dilley, John,
Sale, Peter,
Sale, John,
Walker, John Croxton,
Kemp,
Ray, Mary,
Conder & Son

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