• Reference
    T18/36
  • Title
    Lease: Battlesden Park and Mansion
  • Date free text
    22 Feb 1868
  • Production date
    From: 1867 To: 1868
  • Scope and Content
    i) Sir Edward Henry Page Turner of Battlesden Park, baronet [ii) Charles Gulliver Fryer of Sussex Square, Brighton, Sussex, clerk, and wife Helen Elizabeth - deleted] ii) David Bromilow of Haresfinch Street, St Helens, Lancashire, esquire ... newly erected mansion house with offices, stabling, coach-houses, lawn, pleasure garden and kitchen garden and gardener's house, fruit houses and shrubberies, together with certain pasture land adjoining and held therewith (described in schedule annexed) with use of roads approaching thereto from the Woburn and Dunstable Roads and the lodges and lodge gates, all known as Battlesden Park; timber and minerals reserved to i) for term of 21 years from 29 September 1867 at £850 per annum usual covenants for maintenance etc.; lease may be determined by either party after 7 or 14 years Schedule: Mansion house, stabling, lawn and gardens, and shrubberies 11 acres 0 roods 6 perches Pond Close 12 acres 2 roods 4 perches Cow Leys 21 acres 3 roods 30 perches Total 45 acres 2 roods 0 perches Schedule of works to be done by i) to complete stabling according to plan of that already done, to pave carriage yard when required and put new entrance gates thereto, to enclose at right of present stabling and adjoining the same a straw yard and in it build four loose boxes, a small piggery and a fowls house, to build a new laundry on spot indicated by surveyor, to erect a gasometer (25 feet in diameter) with suitable buildings and lay piping to supply residence, offices and stabling, to put a new brushing table in Cook's room and iron bins in the cellar and certain iron fencing at back of stabling. To complete the two entrance lodges and make good roads therefrom to the Mansion signed: ii) 22 Feb 1868
  • Level of description
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