Scope and Content
Sale catalogue of freehold property being auctioned by Messrs Stafford and Rogers, at the Swan Hotel, Bedford.
The property being auctioned was as follows:
Lot 1: Keysoe Parish, The Top Farm and Capital Farm Homestead, on road from Thurleigh to St Neots, 30 acres 0 roods 16 poles of arable and
pasture land, with a cottage and outbuildings at the homestead. (3 bedroom cottage with kitchen, living room, parlour, dairy, large garden, orchard. Outbuildings: 4 bay open cart shed, stabling for 4 hourses, granary, 2 pigsties, shelter hovel, cow house for 4 cows, large barn, henhouse, stockyard.) [Homestead let to Mr Brown at £4 4s 0d per year.]
Lot 2: Great Barford Parish, 3 acres of garden or accomodation land, with a frontage of 165 feet, on the Bedford Road, bounded on the South West by land belonging to J L Franklyn, Esquire
Lot 3: Great Barford Parish, 3 acres of similar land to Lot 2, adjoining Lot 2 with a frontage of 170 feet, on the Bedford Road
Lot 4: Great Barford Parish, 3 acres 1 rood 185 poles of similar land to Lot 3, adjoining this plot, with a frontage of 192 feet, on the Bedford Road
Lot 5: Great Barford Parish, 7 acres, abutting onto the last 3 plots, approached from the Bedford Road by an occupation road, owned by J L Franklyn
Lot 6: Great Barford Parish, 5 acres 1 rood 35 poles, adjoining Lot 5, belonging to J L Franklyn, and approached from the Bedford Road by an
occupation road
Lot 7: Kempston, Up-End, frontage of 49 feet 6 inches and depth of 132 feet inches, 5 houses and gardens, tenanted, with outbuildings,
producing an annual rent of £31 4s 0d, described as 'The houses which occupy a good position, are substantially built of brick and slated and well worthy notice of those seeking a good investment'. [Nos 45, 47, 49 A & B Bunyan Road, Kempston, now replaced by modern flats]