Reference
X994/3
Title
Sale particulars for Bourne End Farm, Bletsoe. 307 acres for sale by auction at Swan Hotel, Bedford on 15 July 1970, with Georgian style farmhouse, buildings for corn storage and intensive livestock enterprises, with ancillary storage buildings. Auctioneers: Bidwells.
Date free text
1970
Production date
From: 1970 To: 1970
Scope and Content
Farmhouse built of brick and slate. Formerly one house, now divided into a large manager’s house, a farm worker’s cottage with 1 reception room and 4 bedrooms.
Accommodation consists of:
(1) Manager’s House
Ground floor: Front door to large entrance hall; Sitting room 16 feet 10 inches by 13 feet 3 inches with open fire and tile surround; Dining room 16 feet 3 inches by 13 feet 6 inches with modern tile surround fireplace and fitted bookshelves; Pantry with brick floor and fitted cupboards; Cellars; Kitchen with tile floor, solid fuel Rayburn Cooker, fitted modern units to two walls, sink with woodern drainer.
First Floor: Bedroom 1, 13 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 6 inches; Bedroom 2, 9 feet 3 inches by 8 feet; Bedroom 3, 13 feet 6 inches by 12 feet 9 inches; Bedroom 4, 9 feet 3 inches by 8 feet 5 inches; Bathroom including airing cupboard
Outside: Office 15 feet by 15 feet, accessed by a covered concrete passageway; Outside W.C.
(2) Farm worker’s cottage, lying to west of manager’s house
Ground floor: Sitting room, 17 feet 4 inches by 13 feet 3 inches with fitted cupboards and tile surround fireplace; Larder (walk-in); Modern bathroom; Kitchen with Rayburn solid fuel cooker and fitted sink unit.
First floor: Bedroom 1, 13 feet by 7 feet 10 inches with airing cupboard; Bedroom 2, 13 feet 4 inches by 9 feet 6 inches; Small ante-landing leading to bedrooms 3 and 4; Bedroom 3, 13 feet 3 inches by 11 feet 9 inches; Bedroom 4, 16 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 3 inches with open fireplace.
Garden lies to the S and although not large could be extended into field.
Services: Mains water and electricity connected; drainage to septic tank; telephone connected.
Farm Buildings:
Easterly range: Grain store 150 feet by 20 feet converted to form on-the-floor store for 600 tons with Weyroc main duct, overhead Augerveyor, full length railway carriage for vertical auger, two electric extractor fans; to N of this building a brick grain receiving fit feeding to vertical auger and a fitted Alvan Blanche fan for tractor attachment; to W of this range a lean-to brick and asbestos 90 feet by 20 feet implement shed, general store and outside W.C.
Northern range: covered way with overhead 2000 gallon oil store; insulated 35 feet by 20 feet potato chitting shed with concrete floor and installed concrete block and wire mesh 3-to batch tray drier; 90 feet by 20 feet insulated area, formerly mushroom house.
Westerly range: 60 feet by 20 feet store with fitted Weyroc main duct capable of 200 ton storage on-the-floor; 20 feet by 90 feet on-the-floor store for 400 tons of grain; open fronted storage area and pump house
Central range: attached to lean-to to the south of most northerly range, housing Britannia oil fired boiler for heating mushroom house; 70 feet by 18 feet building forming further corn or potato store with attached machine shop and implement stores.
600 gallon oil store to north and east of buildings.
307 acres of land divided into large enclosures for easy working with large equipment, slopes gently in southerly direction making it ideal to grow early crops, especially potatoes (currently 35 acres). Fields listed and plan enclosed.
Sold subject to the following wayleaves, easements and rights of way:
- wayleave with General Post Office;
- 4 electricity wayleave agreements with East Midlands Electricity Board;
- easement for private water supply pipe along eastern side of the roadway
- benefit of an existing irrigation main pipe under the roadway
- right of way to fields to N and W of field O.S. No.6 over the roadway for benefit of F.G.Tompkins and Bedfordia Farms Limited;
- right of way (presently the subject of dispute) between points A and B on enclosed plan along E boundary of Pippin Wood;
- right of way along the roadway to the N of O.S. No.33 to gain access to O.S.Nos.35 and 9
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