Reference
X994/14
Title
Sale particulars for Manor Farm, Toddington, including the Manor Lodge, and incorporating Herne Poplar Farm and Herne Grange Farm. Brochure (16pp) with b & w illustrations and enclosed plan. For sale as a whole or in 3 lots by auction on 23 February 1977. Auctioneers: Bidwells.
Date free text
1977
Production date
From: 1977 To: 1977
Scope and Content
Lot 1: Toddington Manor – Manor House (partly converted into 3 flats and a bedsitter) with modern piggery and 245.486 acres.
Manor House:
Ground floor: Entrance porch leading to; Entrance hall with antique stone carved fireplace, mainly woodblock and part tiled floor; Drawing room with fine alabaster surround to large open fireplace and woodblock floor; secondary entrance porch and long hall with entrance to flat no.2; WC and cloakroom; Dining hall with 17 feet wide open fire, stone overmantle, woodblock floor, panelled walls, and secret door to; Billiard room, panelled with fine open fireplace, woodblock floors and hide seats; lobby with marble floor; washroom and separate WC; door to stable courtyard; door of second hall and dining room to main flat; back lobby and spiral staircase in stone tower to first floor.
First floor: Master Suite consisting of bedroom 1, dressing room, bathroom, bedroom 2 with door to former minstrels’ gallery over dining room, separate WC; Grimsby Suite with two bedrooms, bathroom, and separate WC.
Main Flat – former sculleries etc. to the main house with door from rear courtyard to long hall with doors leading to: Sitting room; large kitchen with solid fuel Aga, quarry tiled floor and game larder; three bedrooms; bathroom. Also doors off to: cellar, side hall of main house, silver safe, and boiler cellar.
Flat 1 – on first floor with private stairs from the stableyard: Three bedrooms; kitchen, sitting room; bathroom. Also a utility room at the bottom of the stairs to Flat 1 and the bedsitter.
Flat 2 – access only via the main house on the second floor: Entrance hall; bathroom; three bedrooms; sitting room; kitchen with dining area.
Bedsitter – access from the same stairs as Flat 1: Bedsitter with basin; bathroom and WC; airing cupboard; kitchen.
Outbuildings, constructed of brick and tile and lying to the north of the Manor around a cobbled yard: store; five loose boxes used as a hay store with a flat over; coaching house used as three garages; store; tack room; 6 loose boxes; 3 garden stores.
Westminster Flat (outbuildings): Sitting room; dining room; two bedrooms; bathroom; separate WC; utility room.
Gardens: swimming pool (48 feet by 18 feet by 8 feet deep, homebuilt in 1973); open grass areas, rosebeds, fine mature amenity trees; walled garden now used as a vegetable garden.
The Lodge – “a picturesque gabled, brick, rough cast and tiled dwelling”. Ground floor: Entrance hall; sitting room; dining room; kitchen with Rayburn; bathroom & WC. First floor: three bedrooms; airing cupboard. Outside: well kept and mature garden.
Piggeries: slurry pit; fattening house capable of housing 400 pigs with at the end an office, feed house, WC and feed hopper; dry sow yards with accommodation for 90 sows with individual feeding places; 4 boar yards with 8 individual lying areas; farrowing house with 28 places; dry sow yards divided into 4 kennels with open yards off for 32 sows; 3 bay hay and straw store with 6 ton fee hopper; multi-suckling / weaner yards with adjacent dry food hoppers; fattening house with central feed passage and 20 pens for 280 pigs.
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Lot 2: Herne Poplar Farm - Old and New Farmhouses, five service cottages, farm buildings (largely used for poultry) and 252.403 acres of land.
Original farmhouse described as “very attractive but in need of renovation”, comprising:
Ground floor: Central hall off traditional yard; dining room (13 feet 6 inches by 14 feet) with open fireplace; sitting room (16 feet 3 inches by 16 feet, excluding south facing bay); kitchen; larder; entrance hall to garden.
First floor: 1 double bedroom over entrance hall and stairs; 2 double and one single bedroom off secondary stairs; bathroom.
New four bedroomed farmhouse built in 1958 for the Farms Director, comprising:
Ground floor: Entrance hall; kitchen; dining room with serving hatch; sitting room; conservatory.
First floor: 4 bedrooms; bathroom; separate WC; airing cupboard.
Numbers 1 to 5 Poplar Cottages, built in 1953:
Two pairs of semi-detached cottages, each comprising: Entrance hall; sitting / dining room; kitchen; pantry; bathroom; back porch with doors to WC and utility room; three bedrooms.
Bungalow comprising: sitting room; kitchen / dining area/ three bedrooms; adjacent garage and car port.
Farm buildings: extensive range of poultry accommodation providing junior rearing unit for 5,700 per batch, rearing houses for 11,000 chicks to point of lay, and laying houses to accommodate 38,500 birds; cattle yard with central silage area to accommodate 140 beasts and 350 tons of silage; ancillary offices.
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Lot 3: Herne Grange Farm – 2 modern bungalows, intensive piggery and 230.352 acres
Bungalows built by Westholm both include: Entrance hall; sitting room; dining area; kitchen; three bedrooms; bathroom; WC. The cottage nearest the farmstead has a conservatory.
Farm buildings: “Harlow” farrowing pens for 18 sows, with feed house and office; “Grossmith” farrowing pens for 18 sows with feed house and feed hopper; “Harlow” dry sow house with 2 hospital pens and feed areas, 54 sow stalls, 18 sow places, and boar pen; “Beacon” verandah type early weaning house for 3 week old weaning of 360 piglets; 3 “Harlow” fattening houses with 4 feed hoppers, able to hold 550 bacon weight pigs; “Crendon” 4 bay grain / potato shed; 3 bay open fronted shed used as implement store; slurry tank.
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