Reference
Z1587/2
Title
Sales particulars for property in Biggleswade and Shefford. To be sold by auction by Messrs Conder & Son at the Swan Hotel, Biggleswade in 14 lots by direction of James Joseph Weston, esq.
Date free text
6 June 1883
Production date
From: 1883 To: 1883
Scope and Content
All tenants under notice to quit except part of Lot 4 and lot 14. Lots 5, 6 & 7 subject to a building line as shewn on the plan.
Lot 1. Rylstone House, High Street, Biggleswade. Brick and stuccoed with slated roof. Entrance hall, dining room, double drawing room, library, kitchen, scullery, pantry and cupboards, 7 bedrooms, dressing room, WC and long attic, wine, beer and coal cellars, large meat safe and soft water tank. Back entrance from Brewery Lane to small garden and yard and range of brick and tiled out offices and stabling. In the occupation of James Daniel. Bounded W partly by lot 2 and premises of Messrs Wells & Co, E by Wells & Co, S by the High Street to which it has a frontage of 54 feet 3 inches, N Brewery Lane with frontage of 60 feet 6 inches.
Lot 2. Brick built and tiled dwelling house and shop. In the occupation of John Reed, Upholsterer, copyhold Manor of Biggleswade.
Lot 3. Freehold building site comprising well stocked kitchen garden partly enclosed by a brick wall, occupied by James Daniel with timber and pantiled coach house and barn with loft over. 1rood frontage to Brewery Lane 67 feet. W properties of Thomas Church, Rebecca Dalton, C Mackaness and Mr Huckle, N Wells & Co, E William Maddams, Wells & co and the Fire Brigade Station.
Lot 4. St Andrew's Place, situate between the churchyard and the premises of E F Powers facing the High Street at its junction with Shortmead Street consisting of 5 copyhold dwelling houses or tenements - the Biggleswade Institute with reading rooms, billiard rooms and living rooms occupied by the caretaker, dwelling house and shop let to Mrs Summerfield, milliner, private dwelling house let to W A Wells, dwelling house with shop let to James Howe, stonemason and private dwelling house let to Miss Morgan 'who uses the premises as a private school'. Range of outbuildings, pump and well of water. Copyhold Manor of Biggleswade.
Lot 5. Freehold building plot in Shortmead Street frontage on the east of 38 feet by depth of 263 feet, S vicarage grounds, W E F Powers, N lot 6. Lot 6. Similar to Lot 5.
Lot 7. Similar to Lot 5.
Lot 8. freehold common right over the common and commonable lands of the parish of Biggleswade. No 11 in the Fen Reeves Books. Right to graze one horse and two cows.
Lot 9. Similar to Lot 8, no 17 in the Fen Reeves books.
Lot 10. Similar to Lot 8, no 18 in the Fen Reeves books.
Lot 11. Similar to Lot 8 held in respect of the Bishops and numbered 92 in the Fen Reeves books.
Lot 12. Similar to Lot 8. No 16 in the Fen Reeves books.
Lot 13. brick and tiled freehold dwelling house in North Bridge Street, Shefford in the tenure of A E Vimpany or his undertenant (George Parrot). Right to joint use of well on Lot 14. N premises of Mr Rider, W meadow of Messrs Caton, S by Lot 14, E by the street with frontage of about 33 feet.
Lot 14. Reversion in fee subject to the life interest of Mrs Green in the brick and tiled freehold dwelling house in the occupation of Mrs Walker. N Lot 13, W meadow of Messrs Caton, S George Barker E Front Street with frontage of about 22 feet.
Special conditions for completion of Lot 4. Title to Lot 4 to commence with indenture 14 April 1858 between Thomas Ayres and William Hogge and Charles Samuel Lindsell. Title to lot 13 to commence with the will of William Neal dated 16 Feb 1833 and all other lots with the will of the late Joseph Weston dated 11 December 1848.
Memorandum of agreement between James Joseph Weston, the vendor, and John Church of Biggleswade, brickmaker of Lot 3 for £210.
Plan.
Printed by Spong and Son, Machine printers, Biggleswade. Hooper & Co solicitors.
Archival history
Transfer from Cambridgeshire Archives originally from Hunnybun & Sons, solicitors, Huntingdon.
Level of description
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