Reference
X994/5
Title
Sale particulars for The Barns, Fenlake, Bedford. For sale by auction at the Swan Hotel, Bedford on 8 June 1940, by direction of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge. Auctioneers: Bidwells.
Date free text
1940
Production date
From: 1940 To: 1940
Scope and Content
Ground floor: Entrance hall; inner hall 17 feet by 13 feet 6 inches; staircase hall; dining room 23 feet 3 inches by 18 feet (excluding bays); drawing room 25 feet by 18 feet 6 inches with French doors to garden; study 16 feet by 15 feet 9 inches with door to riverside terrace.
First floor: 5 bedrooms; dressing room; bathroom; WC; linen cupboard and 2 store cupboards; 3 maids’ bedrooms.
Domestic offices: Maids’ sitting room; kitchen with Trident range and fitted dresser; scullery with Ideal domestic boiler and sink; housemaids pantry with sink; larder; pantry; 2 store rooms.
Outside: Range of brick and iron coal house, earth closet and wood store.
Outbuildings: Range of buildings of red brick and tile construction with displayed timbers: tool shed; store room; stable with loft over; cart shed; fowl house; garage; tithe barn with magnificent exposed timbers; detached brick and tiled 2 stall stable with 2 loose boxes and loft over; brick and tile cow shed; range of brick, lath, plaster and tile harness room, wash house and store places; brick, timber and iron store shed.
Detached cottage: 2 living rooms; 3 bedrooms; pantry; wash house with copper and sink; outside store place.
Grounds: Gardens including large front lawn, kitchen garden with potting shed, and earth closet; terrace and long frontage to River Ouse; orchard; grass paddock; boarded and iron boat house. Total area about 5 acres and 36 poles.
Level of description
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