Scope and Content
Auctioneers Walton and Lee at George Hotel, Luton
by order of trustees of will of late Charles Bartholomew
remaining portions Temple Estate, Sharnbrook
Lot 1) Manor Farm, Sharnbrook: stone built and tiled farmhouse with small flower garden in front.
Contains on ground floor: entrance lobby, living room, sitting room with stove and mantel, brick paved dairy, kitchen with copper and sink, and good cellar.
On first floor: 4 bedrooms, one with fireplace and one with hanging closet.
On top floor: 2 attics.
Kitchen garden to rear
Adjacent buildings: brick and timber built fowl house, granary with six bins and mixing floor, 3 poultry pens under, coal and wood lodge, closet and 6 poultry houses. Beyond is large stone built and tiled with chaff house adjoining. Abutting on enclosed yard are a 2 division pig house, open tying up shed for 2 or 3 horses with manger and rack, cow house for 7 communicating with chaff house and loose box
And on further side of large rick yard and next to the road are following brick and stone built and slated buildings, cart shed for 3, fodder store and communicating therewith opening to enclosed yard with timber built, open shed in one corner, an 8 stall stable nearly new and paved with Staffordshire bricks
In addition a weather boarded cow house for 12 with large loose box
And 2 brick and tiled cottages at Cobb Hall, each contains kitchen, pantry, wood lodge and 3 bedrooms. One has an oven and the other a copper and each has the use of both. Each has a separate garden, closet and pigsty
land in “good heart, having been worked by the late proprietor for many years”
lands: ((p) are pasture)
195 (p) Temple Hill, 20 acres 2 roods 35 perches
196 (p) 2nd Cobhall Piece, 4 acres 2 roods 14 perches
203 (p) Far Cobhall Piece, 4 acres 2 roods 31 perches
204 Butler’s Corner, East of railway, 17 acres 38 perches
215 & 216 Butler’s Close, 10 acres 1 rood 18 perches
217 2 cottages and gardens, 1 rood 12 perches (see above)
218 (p) 1st Cobhall Piece, 5 acres 37 perches
228 Long Croft, 5 acres 3 roods 11 perches
229 Green End (East of railway), 4 acres 1 rood 11 perches
231 (p) Green End, 4 acres 1 rood 13 perches
233 (p) Long Mead, 7 acres 3 roods 26 perches
235 (p) Homestead and Saw Pit Close, 1 acre 2 roods 19 perches (see above)
236 Home Close, 2 acres 2 roods 28 perches
part 257 Meeting Close, 2 acres 1 rood 35 perches
Total: 92 acres 38 perches
let to Messrs Cave under yearly tenancy
expiring Old Michaelmas Day 1900 at a rent of £85 per annum
And small enclosure of woodland called Butler’s Spinney (No.230 on plan) extending to 3 roods 4 perches which is in hand and estimated rental value at 7s..6d per annum
Shooting over this lot and other lands is let to T Brown on lease for 7 years from Lady Day 1896 at rental of £3..10s
Butler’s Spinney – Wood, 3 roods 4 perches
Green End, 4 acres 1 rood 1 perch
Total 27 acres 2 roods 31 perches
Right of way to Eyles Close over part of Home Close
Lot 2) Paddock of grass land (2 acres 1 rood 35 perches) right of way through this lot to Eyles Close on South West
Lot 3) Field of arable (17 acres 19 perches) with a frontage of 563 feet. About half sown with clover ‘and promises an abundant crop’
(purchaser will have to pay tenant for all acts of husbandry performed and seed sown)
Lot 4) Field of grass land (21 acres 14 perches) abutting Rushden Road and Main Road to Bedford with frontage and return frontage of 2,210 feet
(purchaser to pay outgoing tenant for anything to which he may be entitled for tenant right)
Lot 5) Arable land with frontage of 340 feet to road from Bedford Road to Sharnbrook Station and within 100 yards of it and another field of arable
‘excellent site for the erection of houses for which there would be an abundance of willing tenants’
Purchaser must compensate tenant for any payment to which he may be entitled in respect of the occupation
About half is sown with wheat
arable, 4 acres
arable, 2 acres 21 perches
Lot 6) Two stone, brick and tile cottages, barns and gardens called Cobb Hall with 2 enclosures, one of grass land and another of arable and frontage of 650 feet to the road
grass, 5 acres 1 rood 10 perches
arable, 2 acres 3 roods 25 perches
cottages, 1 rood 15 perches
Lot 7) Fields especially good for building good residences
‘This and lot 8 have a splendid elevation and are most healthy spots and are growing some beautiful timber’
Frontage 472 feet
grass, 2 acres 2 roods 5 perches
grass, 2 acres 1 rood 33 perches
arable, 3 roods 18 perches
purchaser to put fence against Lot 6
Lot 8) 2 fields ‘highest point in neighbourhood’ - growing some beautiful timber
frontage and return frontage of 826 feet
grass, 1 acre 3 roods 39 perches
2 acres 1 rood 11 perches
Total 4 acres 1 rood 10 perches
360 Stoke Brook Field, 4 acres 1 rood 19 perches
361 Stoke Brook Field, 3 acres 1 rood 21 perches
part 93 part of the Osier Bed 11 perches
(last in parish of Bletsoe, rest in Sharnbrook)
let to Hipwell and Son on yearly Michaelmas Tenancy at rent of £33..6s per annum
Shooting over this is let to T Brown, on lease for 7 years from Lady Day 1896 at an apportioned rental of £1..2s..6d per annum
(lot believed to be free from Tithe and Land Tax)
all shown on attached plan 16 Jul 1900