Reference
Z1578/Blun/1/13
Title
Auction sales particulars
Date free text
14 June 1889
Production date
From: 1889 To: 1889
Scope and Content
Auction sale particulars – held at Anchor Inn, Tempsford by Conder & Son of Biggleswade – solicitors: A S Wade-Gery of Shefford; Rye, Eyre & Willoughby of 16 Golden Square, London W; H Montagu of 5 and 6 Bucklersbury, London EC
Lot 1: Biggin Farm, Lampits or Langford End, Tempsford: detached farmhouse of brick, plaster, stucco and tile with three living rooms and four bedrooms; small homestead - timber and thatched stable with staircase and two upper rooms, brick and slate lean-to, timber and thatched cow hovel, pigsty, henhouse and closet, poultry yard, pump and well, paddock orchard and two enclosures of pasture – total 12 acres, 2 roods 36 poles; in occupation of Jacob Gosling at £45 per annum; bounded: E, W and part S by estate of Colonel Stuart, part S by property of W G C Mitchell; N by road
Lot 2: Sharp’s Close – 7 acres, 7 poles of pasture believed to contain a bed of gravel – opposite Lot 1; in occupation of Benjamin Arnsby at £21 per annum; may be considered building land
Lot 3: Spiny Close – 2 acres, 35 poles of pasture near Lots 1 and 2 in occupation of Jacob Gosling at £5 per annum bounded N by high road and parish pond, E by property of Jesus College, Cambridge; S and W by estate of Colonel Stuart; may be considered building land
Lot 4: 12 acres of pasture, part of The Green, with frontage to Ham Barn Road, Blunham let to R M Bodger with Lot 5, combined rental £40 per annum - £24 of which was this lot bounded: SW by high road; NW by Lot 5; N by brook and estate of Colonel Stuart; E by River Ivel; SE by property late of S Prentice – copyhold of Manor of Blunham
Lot 5: 8 acres, 12 poles of pasture in part of The Green bounded: SE by Lot 4; W by road; NW and N by brook and properties of Colonel Stuart and John Usher; copyhold of Manor of Blunham
Lot 6: timber and thatched cottage with two living rooms, two bedrooms, two staircases and brick closet on garden of 3 roods with four walnut trees; frontage to Ham Barn Road – in occupation of John Wheatley at £10 per annum bounded: N by property of George Woodward; W and S by property of W Byles; E by road; copyhold of Manor of Blunham
Memorandum that Sarah Ann Bodger, Edward Bodger, Elizabeth Pidgeon, Mary Poole and Thomas Addington, vendors agreed that Robert Morris Bodger of Cardington had purchased Lot 4 for £620
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