Little Chesterford History

FINAL EDITION
On the Borders of Essex & Cambridgeshire.
BETWEEN CAMBRIDGE AND BISHOP'S STORTFORD.

Particulars, with Plans and Views,
of the
Attractive Residential, Manorial,Agricultural and Sporting Estate,
known as
CHESTERFORD PARK
In the Parishes of GREAT AND LITTLE CHESTERFORD, SAFFRON WALDEN, HADSTOCK, ASHDON and LITTLEBURY,
extending to about
3,250 Acres,
and producing an actual and estimated Rental of over
£4,400 per annum.
Arrangement can be made for giving early possession of the Lands in hand.

For Sale by Auction as a whole, or in Lots, by Messrs.
KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY,
at THE TOWN HALL, SAFFRON WALDEN, on TUESDAY,
3RD OCTOBER, 1916, at 2 o'clock precisely. (Unless previously disposed of by Private Treaty.)

Solicitors: Messrs. WALTONS & CO.,101 Leadehall Street, EC.
Messrs. ELLISON & CO., Petty Cury,Cambridge.
Land Agent: C. A. S. COLLYER, Esq., Estate Office, Little Walden, Saffron Walden, Essex.
Auctioneers : Messrs. KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY, Hanover Square, London, W.

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Summary of Estate as Lotted.

No.
of
Lot.

Description

Tennant

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

The Mansion, Grounds, Stabling,
Garage, Parks, Woodlands, etc

In hand and Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

514.010

1,049

Burntwood End and Home Farms,
Saffron Walden

Ditto and Mr. A. T. Greenslade

142.457

135

Little Walden Park Farm

Mr. A. T. Greenslade and in hand

514.237

524

Little Walden Hall Farm

In hand and others

384.564

406

Little Walden Hall

In hand

18.079

150

Oldhouse Farm, Saffron Walden

Ditto

65.923

Ravenstock Green Farm, ditto

Ditto and others

176.071

184

Mitchell's Farm, ditto

Mr. J. E. Haylock and others

301.133

227

Woodlands, ditto

In hand and Mr. A. S. Mills

40.743

Monks Hall Farm, ditto

Mr. A. S. Mills

61.358

Clopton's Farm, ditto

In hand

81.897

Sadler's Farm, ditto

Ditto and another

181.974

180

Crave Hall Farm, Great Chesterford

Messrs. J. & N.Jeffrey and in hand

127.551

107

Burton Wood Farm, ditto

Messrs. Gowlett Bros. and ditto

141.252

113

Common Farm, ditto

Ditto and ditto

61.145

The Manor Farm, Little Chesterford

Mr. J. K.W. Burleigh and another

198.940

227

The Manor House, ditto

Ditto

2.172

Rectory Farm, ditto

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim and others

209.223

225

King's Farm, ditto

Mr. J. C. Porter and another

19.944

"The Bushel aud Strike "
Beerhouse, ditto

Hudson's Cambridge and Pampis-
ford Breweries, Limited

.484

Detached Cottage and Garden, ditto

Mr. C. Seaman

.367

Three Cottages and Gardens, ditto

Various

.184

Cottage Residence, Stabling
and Garden, ditto

In hand

.284

Garden, ditto

Mr. F. Searle

.360

Five Cottages and Gardens, ditto

Various

.315

Ditto, ditto

Ditto

.282

The Village Reading Room
and Two Cottages and
Gardens, ditto

In hand and others

.390

Three Cottages and Gardens, ditto

Various

.222

Jasmine Cottage and Garden, ditto

Mr. Hy. Burton

.120

Three Cottages and Gardens,
Little Walden

Various

.686

Pair of ditto, ditto

Messrs. H. Copping and A. Saville

.152

Three ditto, ditto

Various

.228

Pair of ditto, ditto

Messrs. W. Mascall and E. Saville

.185

Cottage and Garden, ditto

Mr. W. Chapman

.180

Two ditto, ditto

Messrs. J. Francis and J. Clarke

.820

Pair of ditto and Smithy, ditto

Various

.404

Cottage and Garden, Chapelend

Mr. F. Francis

.377

Pair of ditto, near Little Walden

C. A. S, Collyer, Esq., and another

.428

The Sporting

on the Estate

325

Total A.

3,249.141

£4,427

VENDOR'S OUTGOINGS.

Apportioned at

Value 1916.

Tithe Rent Charges in the Parishes of :-

Ashdon-Rectorial

3¼

Saffron Walden-Vicaria1

Impropriate

10¼

£109

£91

2½

Land Tax

£18

11s.

5d.

Annual Rent Charge payable to Lord Braybrooke

16s.

Od.

The Lands in the Parishes of Great and Little Chesterford are Tithe free,
and no Land Tax is paid on the Vendor's property in the Parishes of Ashdon and
Hadstock.

Conditions of Sale

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General Memoranda.

Situation.- The Estate is 43 miles from London and one hour's run from Liverpool Street Station. Cambridge is nine miles distant, Bishop's Stortford twelve, the ancient Market Town of Saffron Walden two, and the Railway Stations of Great Chesterford and Audley End (Main Line, G.E.R.) one and three miles respectively.

CHESTERFORD PARK is a beautifully appointed Mansion in the Tudor style, to which costly additions and alterations have been made within the last few years, and it is maintained in perfect order.

Summary of Accommodation.-Saloon Hall, Seven Reception Rooms, Twenty-seven Bedrooms and Five Bathrooms.

The Garage and Stabling are of recent erection and ornamental in appearance.

Electric Light.-A modern Plant has recently been laid down supplying current to the Mansion, Stabling, Garage and several Outbuildings.

Telephone.-The Post Office Telephone is installed and a private Telephone connected with some of the principal Rooms, the Domestic Offices, Stabling and some of the Cottages.

The Pleasure Grounds and Gardens are delightful and simply planned, well matured, beautifully timbered and inexpensive to maintain.

The Park, which extends to over 200 acres, is studded with well-grown Timber, and sheltered by charming, Woodlands.

Sporting.-The Partridge Shooting is excellent. The Woods hold a considerable head of Pheasants and there are plenty of Hares. The bag for the last few Seasons, including the Hired Shooting, was as follows :-

SEASON.
	1910-11.	1911-12.	1912-13.	1913-14.	1914-15.	1915-1916.
Pheasants	983	1,929	1,832	1,516	2,314	2,358
Partridges	354	938	526	516	584	800
Wild Duck	5	-	-	5	5	-
Hares	457	595	561	470	679	772
Rabbits	3,323	2,519	2,370	2,000	1,764	1,947
Various	23	18	21	26	40	14
Total	5,145	5,999	5,875	4,533	5,386	5,891

There is a very good head left this Season.

The Vendor rents about 1,500 acres of additional Shooting adjoining the Estate.

Hunting with the Puckeridge, Essex, Newmarket, Thurlow and Cambridgeshire Foxhounds.

Manors.-The Manor of Little Chesterford, with such rights and privileges possessed by the Vendor, is included in the Sale of Lot 1.

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General Memoranda - continued.

Residences include: Little Walden Hall, an unusually attractive Country House, containing: Five Reception Rooms, Eleven Bed and Dressing Rooms and Bathroom, and with Stabling and about 18 acres; and Little Walden Park and Little Chesterford Manor Farm Residences, two genuine Tudor Houses, possess many interesting features.

The Agricultural Portion consists of Twelve capital Sheep and Corn-growing Farms and several Small Holdings. The Lands in hand have been farmed by the Vendor and are in a high state of cultivation.

Cottages.-Practically the whole of the Hamlet of Little Walden, the " Bushel and Strike Inn," and the greater part of the Village of Little Chesterford are included in the Sale, about 75 Cottages in all.

Woodlands and Timber.-The Woods are well stocked with valuable Timber. For the guidance of intending Purchasers the Growing Timber has been valued by the Auctioneers, and the following is a summary of their valuation :-

	£	s	d.
Lot 1	5,419	14	9
,, 2	169	12	8
,, 3	161	16	9
,, 4	864	12	7
,, 5	27	14	9
,, 6	303	19	9
,, 7	414	11	3
,, 8	709	2	6
,, 9	1,252	12	8
,, 10	30	18	3
,, 11	59	16	3
,, 12	794	10	8
,, 13	1	13	0
,, 14	257	11	1
,, 15	12	17	6
,, 16	22	8	11
,, 17	2	6	10
,, 18	3	11	4
,, 19	3	7	3
,, 35	6	19	8
,, 36	10	15	0
,, 37	0	12	8
	£10,531	6	1

Details of this Valuation can be inspected at the Auctioneers'Offices by appointment.

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Stipulations.

1. The Particulars with Plans are believed to be correct, but no claim can be admitted for errors or inaccuracies.

2. The Sale shall include all the timber on the property sold, except any timber which had been felled or cut down on the 17th August, 1916, or which, though then still standing, had been marked for sale on the 29th day of May, 1916. The estimated value of the Timber is given on Page 5.

3. The Landlord's fixtures on Lots 1 and 5 (including the electric light and acetylene Gas Plants, with the machinery connected therewith and the pumping machinery and filtering appliances and the iron fencing in the Park, but excluding the oak panelling in the dining room of the mansion house forming part of Lot 1) will be included in the Sale.

4. A Purchaser shall have the option (to be exercised before the day fixed by the Conditions of Sale for the completion of his purchase) of taking by valuation the Tenant's chattels, fixtures and fittings and the furniture on his Lot or Lots, including the Tenant's machinery, sporting requisites, electric light fittings and garden implements, but excluding any effects as to which the Vendor may not be able to give such option, and the necessary valuation shall be made by the Auctioneers on behalf of the Vendor and a Valuer appointed by the Purchaser and the amount thereof shall be paid in addition to the purchase money.

5. The Vendor reserves the right to hold an auction sale or sales upon the Estate at any time before the completion of the purchase.

6. The Sale is subject to existing Tenancies and Leases (which can be inspected at the Solicitor's Offices by appointment and of the contents whereof any Purchaser shall be deemed to have full notice whether availing himself of such opportunity of inspection or not) and to all Rights of Way, Rights of Water, Easements and customary Outgoings, whether mentioned in these Particulars or not.

7. The Purchaser of each Lot shall on completion of his purchase take and pay for by valuation, the tenant right and other property in the lands in hand usually taken by an incoming tenant from an outgoing tenant. Such valuation shall include the unexhausted value of the feeding stuffs and manures consumed on the lands during the past two years. The feeding stuffs and manures shall be valued as a whole (the lands having been farmed as one farm) and shall be apportioned rateably between such lands according to acreage.
Such valuation shall also include the hay and straw, which shall be taken at market price. The valuation or entry shall exclude such hay or other produce which the Vendor has or shall sell to the British Government or shall by any Proclamation Order in Council or otherwise by law be restricted from selling.
No Purchaser shall be entitled to take more hay or other produce than is actually on his Lot when he becomes entitled to take possession thereof notwithstanding that part of the produce of his Lot may have been removed to or be stored on some other Lot, and

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Stipulations.-continued

no Purchaser shall be entitled or bound to take more hay or other produce than in the opinion of the Auctioneers has been actually produced by his Lot, notwithstanding that more may be thereon when he becomes entitled to take possession. But the Vendors will endeavour to arrange as far as conveniently possible that a reasonable quantity of hay and other produce is left on all such lands which will at present continue to be farmed as one farm.
The valuation of the hay and other produce on any Lot shall be made as on the day when the Purchaser shall be entitled to take possession of such Lot. Both valuations shall be made by the Auctioneers on behalf of the Vendors and by the Valuer or Valuers appointed by the Purchaser or Purchasers.

8. Any disputes as to items to be included in the valuations, boundaries, etc., shall be settled by tl1e Auctioneers, whose decision shall be final.

9. The Purchaser of Lot 4 shall have the right to a reasonable supply of water from the Reservoir on Lot 5 subject to his making a payment of £3 per annum to the owner of Lot 5 towards the expense of keeping the Reservoir, Windmill and Pipes in repair. The conveyance of Lot 5 shall be made subject to the Purchaser keeping the said Windmill, Reservoir and Pipes in repair and going order and to the rights of the owner or owners for the time being of Lot 4 in respect of such water supply.

10. The Purchaser of Lots 1, 2 and 4 must contribute a due proportion (to be settled by the Auctioneers in case of dispute) of the cost of repairing and maintaining the road between the points marked C, D, E and S on the Sale Plan.

11. So far as any roads or paths indicated as such on the Sale Plan are comprised in any Lot, such Lot is sold subject to all rights thereover which in the Particulars of any other Lot are stated to be included in such Lot. Each Lot is sold and will be conveyed subject to any rights of drainage or other easements indicated on the Sale Plan.

12. The existing state of cultivation is given in the Schedules, but the Purchaser or Purchasers must satisfy themselves that land described as pasture has not been laid down by the Tenant, who may be entitled to compensation or have the right to break up the same.

13. The Purchaser or Purchasers shall be liable for any claim to which the Tenants may be entitled on quitting for tenant right custom or under the Agricultural Holdings Acts.

14. The Shooting and Sporting Rights as from the 2nd February, 1917, are included in the Sale and the Purchaser shall pay the rearing and game expenses as from that date notwithstanding that completion of the purchase and delivery of possession is postponed to a later date.

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Lot 1.
(Coloured Pink on Plan.)

The Residential, Sporting
and Agricultural Property
distinguished as
" CHESTERFORD PARK,"

conveniently situate about 43 miles from London and One hour's train journey from Liverpool Street Station, One and Three miles respectively from the Stations of Great Chesterford and Audley End (Main Line, G.E.R.), Two miles from the interesting old Market Town of Saffron Walden, Nine miles from Cambridge and Twelve miles from Bishop's Stortford.

The Beautifully Appointed Mansion,

approached by Four Carriage Drives, occupies a well-sheltered position at an altitude of about 360 ft. in the centre of a finely

Timbered Park of 200 acres.

The principal fronts have recently been substantially reconstructed of Brick with Stone Facings in

The Tudor Style of Architecture,

and command delightful views of the Park and surrounding country.
A Pair of Massive Iron Gates, supported by Six Brick Columns, surmounted by Stone Eagles, and a Six-roomed

Lodge Entrance,

guard the Main Entrance to the Park, and a winding Carriage Drive, some half-a-mile in length, terminates at the Mansion House, which provides the following accommodation :

Portico Entrance Vestibule,

14 ft. 3 ins. by 13 ft. 9 ins., panelled in light Oak, Beamed Ceiling and Tessellated Marble Floor.

Lounge or Saloon Hall,

27 ft. by 24 ft. 9 ins. and 17 ft. 6 ins. by 17 ft., panelled in dark Oak, with two Columns, Oak Parquet Floor, deep Open Fireplaces having two settle seats, Tiled Sides and Hearth, and Oak Mantel Surround, the top carved in leaf design with centre coat of arms.

Dinning Room,

32ft. by 23 ft. 6 ins., Enriched Ceiling, Oak Parquet Floor, angular Brick Fire-place, Stone Hearth, Carved Stone Mantel and Overmantel, the latter having two coat of arms panels, opening to

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Boudoir,

13 ft. 9 ins. by 13 ft. 3 ins., having Carved Marble Mantel and Kerb, Tiled Sides and Hearth, and Brass and Steel Grate.

Morning Room,

29 ft. by 15 ft. 3ins., excluding two recesses, fitted with Mahogany Glazed Bookcases, panelled in old Carved Oak, Raised Brick Grate, Carved Oak Mantel and Overmantel, the centre panel fitted with old Oil Painting. and having French easement to Gardens.
These Rooms have South and West aspects.

Study.

33 ft. 6 ins. by 21 ft., with door leading to Grounds, and decorated and panelled in the Louis XVI. style, Oak Parquet Floor, Panelled Ceiling, Open Fireplace, Stone and Marble hearth, Carved Stone Mantel and handsome Oak Mantel with Adam style decorations, and fitted Bookcase.

Library,

27 ft. 6 ins. by 19 ft. 6 ins., excluding large hay, Wainscotted in Oak, Open Brick Fireplace, handsome Carved Oak Mantel and Overmantel.

Drawing Room,

34 ft. G ins. by 19 ft. 6 ins., enriched Ceiling and Panelled Walls in the Louis XVI. style, Open Fireplace with Tiled Back and Marble Kerb, and Carved Wood Mantel.

Smoking Room,

29 ft. by 19 ft. 9 ins., excluding bay, Oak Wainscotted Walls, Anaglypta Ceiling, Polished Carved Oak Mantel and Overmantel, Brass and Steel-mounted Grate, Tiled Sides and Hearth and Oak Parquet Floor.
These Rooms have South and East aspects, the Corridors have Oak Parquet Floors and Oak Panelled Dados, and the Doors to the Reception Rooms are of Oak and Mahogany.
The FIRST FLOOR, reached by three staircases, the principal having stone treads and risers, mahogany handrail, fluted iron banisters and stained glass leaded light landing window, provides the following

Bedroom Accommodation:

TRELLIS BEDROOM, 21 ft. by 18 ft.
GREEN BEDROOM, 13 ft. Bins. by 10 ft.
GABLE BEDROOM, 15 ft. 11 ins. by 12 ft. 3 ins.
WEST DRESSING ROOM, 16 ft. by 14 ft.
WEST BEDROOM, 24 ft. 4 ins. by 19 ft.
BALCONY BEDROOM, 21 ft. 11 ins. by 16 ft.
OAK BEDROOM, 22 ft. 3 ins. by 15 ft. 11 ins.
BEST BEDROOM, 33 ft. 9 ins. by 21 ft. 3 ins., excluding bay.
DRESSING ROOM or BEDROOM adjoining, 18 ft. 9 ins. by 17 ft. 9 ins.
BEDROOM, 16 ft. by 14 ft.
BEDROOM, 20 ft. by 18 ft. 3 ins.
FIVE BATHROOMS, with Baths and Basins (h. and c.) and Six W.C's.
WIDE LANDING with Oak Panelled Dado.
FOUR-DIVISION HANGING AND LINEN CUPBOARD.

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The Domestic Apartments,

planned on the GROUND FLOOR, include:
Maids' Sitting Room, 22 ft. by 12 ft. 3 ins., Butler's Bedroom, Bedroom or Storeroom, Housekeeper's Bedroom, Boxroom with Lavatory Basin (h. and c.), Brush Room, Servants' Hall, 21 ft. by 11 ft. 6 ins., Kitchen, 25 ft. by 21 ft., with Wood Block Floor, Dresser, Cupboard, Serving Hatch to Dining Room, Herald Range and Sink (h. and c.), Two-division Larder, Larder with Sink, Scullery with Three-division Chinaware Sink (h. and c.), Furnace House with hot water cylinder for Baths, Housekeeper's Sitting Room, Cellar having "Ideal" Central Heating Apparatus, Coal and Wine Cellars, Butler's Pantry with Sink (h. and c. and soft water), Plate and Glass Cupboards and Drawers, and Baize-lined Silver and Linen Cupboard, Tile-paved Cloak Room with Basin (h. and c.) and separate Pedestal W.C., also Servants' Bathroom (h. and c.) and W.C., Coal House and Dairy.

The Modern-fitted Laundry

contains: Washing House with Six Washing Tubs (h. and c. water), Copper with Self-filling Boiler, and Ironing and Drying Room with Stoves, Racks and Pulleys.

On the UPPER FLOOR are:
Twelve Bedrooms, two of which are 22 ft. 2 ins. by 13 ft. 10 ins. and 19 ft. by 15 ft., School Room, 19 ft. 11 ins. by 17 ft. 3 ins., with steps to balcony, Bathroom with Basin (h. and c.), W.C., Housemaid's Scullery and Sink (h. and c.).

Summary of Accommodation :

GROUND FLOOR: Vestibule, Saloon Hall, Suite of Seven Reception Rooms, Four Servants' Bedrooms, Servants' Hall, Housekeeper's Room, Kitchen and Offices, and Bathroom.

UPPER FLOOR : Nine Principal Bedrooms, Two Dressing Rooms, Five Bathrooms, Twelve Secondary and Servants' Bedrooms, School Room and Bathroom.

Heating.

The House is heated throughout by Hot Water Radiators, those in the principal rooms being encased.

Hot Water Supply.

There is a separate Boiler for the supply of Hot Water for Baths and Lavatory Basins.

Lighting.

The House, Stabling, Garage and several Outbuildings are lit by Electric Light, the plant having recently been installed, and there is also an emergency plant.

Water Supply.

The drinking water is derived from a Well over 200 ft. deep, pumped to supply cisterns at the House. In addition there is a soft water supply pumped from ponds to underground tanks, filtered and repumped to supply tanks.

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Electric Bells

with latest improvements are fixed thoughout.

Sanitation.

The Drainage has been remodelled in recent years.

Telephone

is connected from some of the principal rooms to the Domestic Offices, Stabling and several Cottages, and also to the Post Office Exchange.
In a convenient position near the House is the recently erected

Ornamental Garage and Stabling,

Brick built with Tiled Roofs, ranged round two sides of partly roofed paved Yard, and comprising : Harness Room with match-boarded walls, Garage or Coachhouse, about 40 ft. long, with Concrete Floor and Pit, and Loft over, Harness Room, Washing House or Garage, Concrete paved, Garage, heated, with Concrete Floor, Gun Room with Wood Block Floor, Game Larder, and Four Visitors' Servants' Bedrooms.
Adjoining is the

Chauffeur's Cottage,

Brick and Slated, and containing Lean-to Porch, Four Rooms and Scullery. In close proximity is

The Stud Yard.

surrounding three sides of which are Boarded and Tiled Buildings on Brick Foundations and Concrete paved, comprising: Twenty-five Loose Boxes, Washing House with Pit, Painter's and Carpenter's Shops.
Water is laid on and Electric Light to part.
In the centre of the Yard is a Brick-built Tank House, with tank on top, for the supply of soft water to the Gardens, Stud Yard, Laundry and Garages. Close to is

The Stud Groom's House,

Brick built and Slated, creeper clad, and contains, on the Ground Floor: Sitting Room, 18 ft. 2 ins. by 14 ft. 9 ins., Office or Sitting Room, 16 ft. 6 ins. by 14 ft. 9 ins., Kitchen, Scullery with Copper and Sink, and Pantry. On the Upper Floor are Five Bedrooms. Paved Cellar in Basement with Tiled Dado, Slate Shelves and Sink. Two Staircases. Garden in front and small Store Shed at side.

The Charming Old Pleasure Grounds

are planned with delightful simplicity, inexpensive to maintain, adorned with the choicest variety of Ornamental Timber Trees and Shrubs, comprising: Weeping Ash and Elm, Copper Beeches, Wellingtonia, Cedars, Variegated and Red Sycamore, and Golden Yews, and include artistically designed Flower Beds, Sloping and other Lawns, Notting, Woodland and Shrubbery Walks.

Ornamental Lake,

crossed by Brick and Flint Bridge, and stocked with Rainbow Trout,
ROCK GARDEN. NIGHTINGALE GROVE.

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Rose Garden having Nineteen Beds, Six Basket ditto and Sundial, Sweet Pea Garden, Rose and Lavender Garden bordered by Yew Hedge, and with Sundial and Pavilion.
On the Eastern side of the Grounds is a Hard Tennis Court, fenced and wired in, and Two Grass Courts adjoining.

The Head Gardener's House

is double-fronted, bay windowed, and contains: Five Rooms, Larder, Scullery and Packing Room, and outside are Coal House and Privy. It adjoins

The Walled Kitchen Garden,

about One acre in extent, containing a choice variety of young Fruit trees and Bushes, and Rustic Rose Pergola. Adjacent is

The Fruit Garden and Orchard

of about Two acres, well planted with Fruit Bushes and containing Herbaceous Border.

The Glasshouses

consist of the following: Four-division Three-quarter Span House (used as Vinery, Plant, Fig, Peach and Nectarine Houses), Rose House, Lean-to Store House, Lean-to Fernery, Winter Garden or Conservatory (heated), and Lean-to Green- house. In

The Frame Yard

are Two long Ranges of Heated Glass Frames and Two Cold Frames, also a Brick and Slated Range, containing: Two-bay Open Shed with Loft, Tool Shed, Mushroom House, Potting Shed and Boiler House, and a large Brick-built and Cement Tank with Water laid on. Close to is

The Pony Yard,

in which are Cart and Wood Sheds, Two Loose Boxes and Potato Store House.

The Gardener's Bothy

contains Six Rooms and has a Garden attached, and at the rear: Coal House, Privy, Wood House, detached Shed and Wood Shed.

Electric Light and Water Supply.

In Enclosure No. 84 is a Corrugated and Weather Boarded set of Buildings on Brick Foundations consisting of :-
Smithy with Forge, Oil Store, Well House, fitted with Three-cylinder Pump, Engine House with 10-h.p. Hornsby Oil Engine, Dynamo, Two Cooling Tanks, Switchboard and Shafting, Cell Room with emergency Installation of Cells, new Engine House with Three-cylinder Horizontal Pump by Merryweather, 12-h.p. Oil Engine by R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., Dynamo, Two Cooling Tanks, and Loft over, Patent Silencer and Switchboard, new Cell Room of Cells. The 160-volt Electric Light Plant has only been installed about two years.
At the rear is an underground Brick and Cement Tank, 20 ft. by 20 ft. by 10 ft., for storage of soft water, Filter, and Single-throw emergency pump.

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In Enclosure N0. 236a, Parish of Great Chesterford, is

A New Brick-built and Slated Engine House,

with 3-h.p. Shanks' Oil Engine, and Single-throw Pump for pumping water from the ponds near to underground tanks at the Mansion House.
Adjoining the Ponds in Wood No. 77, Parish of Little Chesterford, is a recently erected

Brick and Tile-built Engine House,

with Cement Floor, and fitted with a new 4-h.p. Shanks' Oil Engine and Cooling Tank for the supply of soft water, and close to is a Windmill Pump for the same purpose.

A Pair of Keepers' Cottages,

Brick built and Slated, standing in Enclosure No. 239, Parish of Great Chesterford, and each containing Three Rooms up and Living Room, Scullery with Copper, and Pantry down.
Outside are Coal and Wood Shed and Privy. Garden.
At the rear, in Paddock Wood, is a Pheasant House and Run.

In Wood No. 48 is a Keeper's Hut, and in No. 129c a Three-bay Open Cattle Shed and Barn with Yard. The whole forming a Compact and attractive Estate of about

514.010 acres,

and has an apportioned and estimated Rental Value of

£1,099 17s. 6d.

The densely timbered Woodlands fringing the Park form a capital screen, and the Park Land, which is well roaded and fenced, provides capital grazing, and there is some useful Arable Land included in this Lot.

SUMMARY OF LOT 1.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

In hand

447.486

1,000

Estimated.

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

Yearly Michaelmas

66.524

Apportioned.

1,049

In hand

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

514.237

574

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.
Land Tax £1 18s. 10d.

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SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
128	In hand	Rough Pasture, Bushes, etc.	2.675
129b		Plantation, etc.	19.427
129c		Buildings and Yard	.100
130		Rough Pasture	6.774
131		Arable	15.332
132		Rough Pasture, etc.	14.911
133		Ditto	6.462
134		Ditto	5.079
146c		Lane	1.379
236a		Engine House, Ponds, etc.	1.258
237		Wood	21.293
238		Park	.248
239		Cottages and Gardens	.541
240		Wood	.738
241 & 242		Park	24.317
243		Wood	4.294
	PARISH OF LITTLE CHESTERFORD.
46a		Rough Pasture, etc.	8.656
46b		Ditto	4.187
48		Wood, Bothy, etc.	53.702
50		Park	39.251
53		Plantation	.321
54		Ditto	.642
56		Lodge and Plantation	2.644
58		Plantation	.203
59		Ditto	.574
62b		Ditto	5.000
66b		Rough Pasture, etc.	8.769
67		Park	11.130
68		Plantation	3.122
69		Wood	3.829
70, 88 & 92		Park	97.730
71		Plantation	.848
72		Ditto	3.013
73		Park, Drive. etc.	23.648
74		Plantation	1.816
75		Park	13.549
76		Pond	.501
77		Plantation	6.686
78		Pasture	1.394
79		Plantation	1.089
84, 85 & 87		Mansion, Grounds, etc.	14.064
86		Ornamental Pond	.274
89		Plantation	.705
90		Ditto	.252
91		Ditto	.504
93		Orchard	1.219
94		Cottage, Glasshouses, Kitchen Garden, etc.	1.621
95		Wood	5.222
124		Ditto	4.610
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
819b		Plantation	.600
827		Ditto	.590
829		Ditto	.693
				447.486
	PARISH OF LITTLE CHESTERFORD.
46c	Mr. E. J. Pilgrim	Arable	26.591
60		Ditto	.633
62a		Ditto	22.074
63		Ditto	5.914
129a		Ditto	7.312
				66.524
		Total A.		514.010

This Lot will be sold with the benefit of (a) Rights-of-way over the roads marked A and B, and C, D, E and S, leading therefrom to the Cambridge Road and to Little Walden respectively; (b) with Right-of-way and access for all purposes to the Engine House, Plant and Ponds, numbered 236a (Parish of Great Chesterford), and to the soft water supply pipe therefrom to the Mansion, and to the Drain and Cesspit on Lot 18, and (c) with the right to place guns for shooting purposes on No.45 of Lot 18 on payment of the sum of £5 per annum to the owner thereof.

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Lot 2.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A Valuable Mixed Holding

known as

"BURNTWOOD END"

and

"HOME FARMS,"

consisting of

Two Homesteads and Sets of Buildings, Two Cottages and about
142.457 acres of Useful Arable and Meadow Land,

with an estimated and apportioned Rental Value of

Per £145 annum,

and vacant possession of the greater part by arrangement.

The "Burntwood End" Farm House

contains: Six Rooms up, and Two Rooms and Scullery and Dairy down, and is now occupied as Two Cottages. Detached Wash-house with Copper, and Privy.

TWO GARDENS.

There are

Two Sets of Buildings,

the one near the Farm House consisting of Granary, Fowl House, Two Pigsties, Cow House, Two Calf Pens, Barn, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two Pigsties, Three-bay Open Shed, Stable for Four and Chaff House; and the other on the opposite side of the road comprises: Three-bay Open Cart Shed, Cooling House with Copper, and paved floor, Cow House for Nine with paved floor, Five Pigsties, Seven Loose Boxes and Fowl House.

The "Home" Farm House

contains: Living Room, Sitting Room, Kitchen with Copper, Scullery and Pantry down, and Four Bedrooms up.

GARDEN. PRIVY.

On the other side of the road are

The Farm Buildings,

chiefly Weather Boarded on Brick Foundations with Pantiled and Thatched Roofs, and consisting of Stable for Four, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two-bay ditto, Barn, Stable and Two Store Houses, Three-bay Open Implement Shed.

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Two lath, Plaster and Thatched Cottages

on Brick Foundations, one containing: Two Rooms up, and Room and Wash-house down, and the other Two up and Two down, and Lean-to Wash-house with Copper.

GARDEN AND PRIVY TO EACH.

In No. 833, Parish of Saffron Walden, is

A Set of Buildings,

Weather Boarded on Brick Foundations, with Pantiled Roof, consisting of Four Loose Boxes, Concrete Floor and Wooden Mangers, and a Five-bay Open Shed ranged round two sides of a Yard.

SUMMARY OF LOT 2.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

In hand

128.921

125

Estimated.

Mr. A. T. Greeslade

Yearly Michaelmas

13.533

Apportioned.

135

In hand

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

142.457

145

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Tithe Rent Charge (apportioned)-
Vicarial, £4 5s. ld. Value 1916 £3 10s. 8¾.

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
146b	In hand	Green Lane	1.560
Pt. 236		Arable	45·861
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN
821		Arable	10.470
Pt. 822 and 835		Water Lane	2.364
823, 825 and 826		Meadow, Buildings, etc.	6·796
824		Cottages, Buildings, etc.	.580
828		Arable and Buildings	22·520
832		Wood	.442
833		Meadow and Buildings	9.648
834		Cottages, Buildings, etc.	.432
836		Arable	9.166
837		Meadow	2.708
Pt. 838		Ditto	5.766
891		Arable	3.594
892		Meadow	7·017
				128.924
830	Mr. A. T. Greenslade	Roadway	·250
831		Arable	13.283
				13.533
		Total A.		142·457

This Lot will be sold with the benefit of a Right-of-way over the road marked D, E and F leading there- from to Little Walden, and subject to a Right-of-way reserved to Lot 1 over the road marked C and D, and to a Right-of-way and access for all purposes to the Engine House, Plant and Ponds, numbered 236a (Parish of Great Chesterford), and to the soft water supply pipe to the Mansion.

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Lot 3.

(Coloured Green on Plan.)

A Superior Residential and Agricultural Holding,

known as

" LITTLE WALDEN PARK "

consisting of a

XVIth Century Residence, Well-arranged Buildings, Lodge
Entrance, and One Cottage,

and about

514.237 acres,

of a Rental Value of

£574 13s. 6d.

The Lot is about Five miles from Bartlow and Seven from Great Chesterford Stations, the latter on the G.E.R. Main Line, and Four miles from Linton Station, and Three from the Market Town of Saffron Walden.

The Tudor Farm Residence

is approached by Carriage Drive, about half-a-mile in length, having at its entrance

A Picturesque Modern Lodge,

Brick built, Rough-cast and Tiled, and containing Two Rooms up, Three Rooms, Kitchen, and Scullery with Copper down, Coal Shed, Privy and Shed in the Garden.

The House

is Brick built and Tiled, placed in the centre of the Lot, stands in a high position, from which views of a most extensive range are obtained.

Accommodation :

On the GROUND FLOOR-
Porch and Spacious Entrance Hall, Dining Room, about 18 ft. by 16 ft., excluding bay, Drawing Room, about 20 ft. by 16 ft., and with Marble Mantel, large Kitchen, with Range, Scullery with Sink (Water laid on), Yorkshire Oven, Copper and patent Bath-water Heater, and Dairy, and Wine Cellars in Basement.

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Two Staircases, one of old Oak, lead to the FIRST FLOOR, on which are-
Seven Bedrooms, fitted Bathroom, with basin (h. & c.), and Pedestal W.C.

On TOP FLOOR-
Play-room and Two Attics.

The Gardens

are matured, and consist of Flower Garden, Kitchen Garden, Tennis Lawn and Orchard.

The Well-planned Buildings,

many of which are of recent construction, are placed convenient to the Residence. They are Weather Boarded on Brick Foundations and have Slate, Tile and Corrugated Iron Roofs, many are Concrete paved, and Water is laid on to the Yards by gravitation from ponds.
The BUILDINGS are as follows: Motor House, Trap and Implement Shed, Blacksmith's Shop, Open Shed, Nine Loose Boxes, Three Cart-horse Stables for Fifteen, Chaff House, Two Ten-bay Open Cattle Sheds, One large and Two smaller Barns, fitted with Stone Mill, Five Piggeries, Mixing House, Two Three~bay Open Sheds, Mixing Shed with Granary over, Chaff-House, Drill Shed, Eight-bay Open Cart Shed, Machine Shed, Poultry House, Two-bay Open Cart Shed, and Three large covered Cattle Sheds with Feeding Passages.

A Detached Cottage

stands in Enclosure No. 902, is Brick built, Tile hung and Slated and contains Three Bedrooms up, Two Rooms and Scullery down. Detached Coal House and Privy.

LARGE GARDEN.

The Homestead

is placed in the centre of the Farm Lands, which are most compact, lie in a ring fence, and are of a very healthy and productive description.

SUMMARY OF LOT 3.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Mr. A. T. Greeslade

Yearly Michaelmas

487.627

509

Apportioned.

In hand

26.610

Estimated.

524

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto

Total A.

514.237

574

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LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial, £1 4s. Value 1916

11½

Land Tax

4½

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF HADSTOCK.
181	Mr. A. T. Greenslade	Arable	.780
182		Ditto	8.720
184		Ditto	10.083
185		Ditto	19.502
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
229		Arable	66.350
232		Ditto	20.574
233		Ditto	.143
234		Ditto	10.257
235		Ditto	27.281
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN
Pt. 830		Arable	20.686
894		Ditto	6.972
895		Ditto	14.653
896		Meadow	5.743
897		Ditto	3.199
898		Arable	18.764
899 & 900		Meadow, House, Buildings, etc.	6.027
901		Orchard	1.366
902		Cottage and Garden	.455
903		Meadow	15.381
904 905 & 906		Arable	109.227
917		Pasture	7.420
918		Arable	.374
919		Ditto	3.950
920		Ditto	9.070
921		Meadow	24.984
922		Pond	.326
923		Rough Pasture, Rickyard, etc.	5.157
924		Arable	33.362
925		Ditto	13.918
926		Ditto	22.903
				487.627
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
146a	In hand	Lane	.397
230a		Common	22.397
231		Green Lane	2.410
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
906		Lodge and Garden	.365
908		Plantation	.404
913		Ditto	.637
				26.610
		Total A.		514.237

This Lot will be sold subject to the right of the owner and occupiers of Lot 38 to draw water from the well in the Garden at the Lodge Entrance (No. 906)

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Lot 4.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

An Important Corn and Stock Holding

Adjoining and intersected by excellent roads, Two miles from the ancient Market Town of Saffron Walden, known as

"THE HALL FARM,"

LITTLE WALDEN,

and comprises

A Commodious Farm House, a Splendid Set of Buildings; and
the Arable and Meadow Land is of a most productive and
fertile description.

The total extent is about

384.564 acres,

And the Rental Value

Per £441 annum,

with vacant possession by arrangement.

The Substantial Double-fronted Farm Residence

is Brick built and Tiled, creeper and rose clad, stands well back from the road, and has Lawn and Flower Beds in front.

Accommodation :

On the GROUND FLOOR:
Drawing Room, about 16 ft. by 16 ft., Dining Room, about 18 ft. by 12 ft., Ditto, about 21 ft. by 15 ft., excluding bay, and fitted with Oak Mantel, Kitchen, Tile paved, and having Range and Dresser, Scullery with Oven, Sink (Water laid on), and Pump from Well, Pantry and Cellar.
Two Staircases lead to the UPPER FLOOR, on which are-
Eight Bed and Dressing Rooms, and W.C.
Adjoining is paved Coach-house, and at the side Kitchen and Fruit Garden.

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The Farm Buildings,

situate at the rear, are most substantially built of Brick with Slated Roofs, conveniently planned, ranged round Yards, and comprise: Five-bay Open Cattle Shed,Brew House with Two Coppers, Men's Privy, Nag Stable of Two Loose Boxes and One Stall, Cart-horse Stable for Five, Chaff House, Cart-horse Stable for Five, Harness Room, Cart-horse Stable for Six, Two Three-bay Open and One Closed Bay Cattle Sheds, Cow Shed for Six, Loose Box, Two Calf Pens and Loose Box, Calf Pen, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed with Loft over part, Two Corn Barns, Granary over part, fitted Five Bins, and Shoots to floor below, Grinding Mill and Pair of Stones, Cow Shed for Twelve with Feeding Passage, Chaff House, Loose Box, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Milk Shed, Granary with Four Bins on Upper and Six on Lower Floor, Three-division Piggery with Feeding Passage, and Two ditto adjoining, and Eight-bay Open Cart Shed. Nearly all the Buildings have Brick, Concrete or Clinker-paved Floors. Blacksmith's and Carpenter's Shop, Drill House and Poultry House, Four Loose Boxes, and Two Open Corrugated Iron-built Sheds.
WATER is laid on to the Buildings.

A Pair of Cottages,

consisting of Four Rooms and Pantry each, and one having Wash-house with Copper. At the back are Wood Shed and Two Privies.

GARDEN.

In Nos. 748 and 749 is an Eight-bay Open Shed and Sheep Yard, and in No. 844 a Three-bay Open Shed.

SUMMARY OF LOT 4.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

In hand

384.293

400

Estimated.

Mr. D. Mascall

half-yearly

.271

Landlord pays
rates

Mr. C. Saville

Monthly

406

Ditto

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

384.564

£441

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.Value 1916

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial, £20 17s 10d.

Impropriate, £4 19s 7d.

9¼

1¼

Land Tax

Total

11½

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SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
Pt. 696	In hand	Roadway	·206
697		Wood	9.111
698		Arable	71.511
699		Ditto	7.642
700		Meadow	4·316
706		Ditto	2.599
710 Pt. 822 & 843		Green Lane	2.542
711 & 713a		House, standings, etc.	2.105
714		Meadow	.388
716		Ditto	5.705
Pt. 717		Ditto	10.484
Pt. 718		Green Lane	1.107
719		Meadow	8.111
720		Ditto	8.995
723		Ditto	3.922
743		Arable	16.500
744		Ditto	1.660
746		Meadow	5·350
748 & 749		Ditto and Buildings	4.282
750		Arable	15.336
Pt. 752		Ditto	27·230
753		Ditto	29.356
816		Ditto	13.272
817		Ditto	14.491
818		Ditto	17.618
819a		Wood	1.937
819c		Ditto	.807
820		Arable	15.547
Pt. 838 &839		Ditto	5.746
840		Ditto	30.728
841		Wood	·505
842		Arable	17.813
844		Meadow	2·902
845		Ditto	2·450
890		Arable	22.019
				384.293
713b	Messrs. D. Mascall & C. Saville	Cottages and Gardens		.271
		Total A.		384.564

This Lot will be sold subject to Rights-of-way and access for all purposes being reserved to Lot 5 to the Cesspit, Drain, and Gas House at the rear of the Farm Buildings, and to Rights-ofway reserved to Lots 1 and 2 as previously mentioned, over the road marked D, E and S, and with the benefit of a Right-of-way over the Carriage Drive Approach from the Saffron Walden Road to the rear of the Homestead, and to Field No. Pt. 752, marked I, K and L, and also subject to a Right-of-way reserved to Lot 6 over the road marked M and N.

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Lot 5.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

An Unusually Attractive Country Residence,

with about Eighteen acres of Land in a secluded and well-timbered position, about a quarter-of-mile from the road from Saffron Walden to Hadstock, and only Two miles from the former interesting old Town, with Station on the Great Eastern Railway.
It is known as

" THE HALL "

LITTLE WALDEN,

is approached from the main road by

Avenue Carriage Drive,

at the entrance to which is a

Picturesque Gabled Entrance Lodge,

recently erected, Brick built with Stone Facings, Tiled Roof and Half-timber Gables, and containing: Five Rooms, Scullery with Copper and Sink, and Larder. Privy. Water and Acetylene Gas laid on.

WELL PLANTED GARDEN WITH FRUIT TREES.

The Residence,

which is Brick and Slated, with Stone Faciugs, affords the following accommodation :
On the GROUND FLOOR-
Entrance Hall, Inner Lounge Hall with Fireplace, Drawing Room about 27 ft. by 18 ft. 6 ins., fitted with Oak Mantelpicce, and Brass Canopy Grate with Tiled Sides and Hearth. Dining Room, 20 ft. by 17 ft., excluding Two bays, and having Marble Mantel and Dog Grate, Glazed Brick Sides and Hearth. Sitting Room, 10 ft. by 12 ft., excluding hay. Study, 14 ft. by 10 ft. 0 ins. Reception Room, 20 ft. by 16 ft. 0 ins. fitted with Oak Mantel, Copper Canopy Grate, with raised Tiled Hearth, and Copper surround. W.C. Lavatory Basin (h. and c.). Kitchen with large and small Range and Sink (Water laid on). Scullery with Glazed Sink (h. and c.). Pantry, with Fireplace and Sink (h. and c.), and lead-lined Plate and Glass Cupboard. Larder with Copper. Coal Shed and Boot Hole, with Oven, and
In HALF BASEMENT-
Seven-division Cellar, " Ideal " Hot Water Heater and Fuel Shed. On the FIRST FLOOR-
Nine Bedrooms, Six of which measure 21 ft. 0 ins. by 12 ft.; 10 ft. by 12 ft., excluding bay; 10 ft. 6 ins. by 15 ft. ; 10 ft. by 17 ft. ; 16 ft. 6 ins. by 15 ft., and 17 ft. by 14 ft. 0 ins., excluding bay, and the principal being fitted with Marble Mantels and Tiled Canopy Grates. Dressing Room. Fitted Bathroom with Fireplace and Pedestal W.C., Maids' Sink (h.and c. and soft water). Hot Cupboard, fitted with Nine Drawers and Two Cupboards; and Man's Room approached by separate Staircase.

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On the TOP FLOOR-
Attic or Store Room.
The Hall, Landing and Two of the Reception Rooms have Hot Water Radiator Heating, and the House is lit by Acetylene Gas.
WATER is laid on by gravitation from a reservoir of 30,000 gallons capacity, supplied from Artesian Well by double-throw Windmill Pump.
Well screened from the House by Trees and Shrubberies is the Brick-built and Slated

Stabling

of Two Stalls and Two Loose Boxes with Iron Fittings, Saddle Room, Three-bay Coach-house and Straw Shed. Acetylene Gas laid on.

The Grounds

are of a delightful old-world character; have Brick-paved and Gravelled Footpaths, and include: Croquet Lawn, Rustic Rose Pergola, Splendid Fruit and Vegetable Garden and Bush Fruit Garden, and Antique Sundial on old Stone Pedestal, and Orchard.
In a Field adjoining the Grounds is

A Capital Tennis Lawn.

In addition there is Lean-to Heated Greenhouse, Store and Tool Sheds and Potting Shed.
The GAS HOUSE is Brick built and Tiled, and fitted with the Allen Acetylene Gas Plant, comprising Generator, Purifier and Gas Holder.
This Lot is in hand, and possession will be given by arrangement.
Estimated Rental

Per £150 annum.

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
708	In hand	Meadow, etc.	3.845
709, 712 and P. 713		Residence, Grounds, etc.	6.749
713c		Lodge and Garden	.224
751		Meadow	7.039
Pt. 752		Plantation	.222
		Total A.	18.079

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial, 17s 10d.

7¾

Land Tax

1¾

This Lot will be sold with the benefit of a Right-of-way and access for all purposes to the Drain, Cesspit and Gas House at the rear ofthe Hall Farm Buildings, and subject to a Right-of-way reserved to Lot 4 over the Carriage Drive Approach from the Saffron Walden Road to the rear of the Homestead and Field No. Pt. 752, marked I, K and L.

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Lot 6.

(Coloured Light Brown on Plan.)

A Capital Mixed Farm

known as

" OLDHOUSE, "

About half-a-mile from the Hamlet of Little Walden and One-and-a-half miles from the Market Town of Saffron Walden.
lt is in hand and covers an area of about

65.923 acres,

with an estimated Rental of

Per £65 annum,

including SPORTING, and consists of

A Homestead, several Enclosures of Well-watered Meadow and productive Arable Land and a thriving Wood.

The Homestead

comprises A Brick, Lath and Plaster and Thatched Cottage, containing Four Rooms and Scullery. Fowl House, Garden and Privy.

The Buildings

are Weather Boarded on Brick Foundations, Thatched and Tiled, and consist of:
Stable for Four, Two-division Shed, Barn, Five-bay Open Shed, Closed ditto or Barn, and Fowl House.
Possession will be given by arrangement.

SUMMARY OF LOT 6.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

In hand

65.923

Estimated.

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto.

Total A.

65.923

£65

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.Value 1916

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial, £2 19.s 1d.

1¼;

Impropriate, £9 1s. 9d.

2¼

Land Tax

Total

£10

11¼

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SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
667	In hand	Meadow	6.633
677		Green Lane	1.552
678		Arable	4.341
679		Ditto	7.577
680		wood	3.561
681		Meadow	2 ·046
682		Cottage, Buildings, etc.	1.713
683		Meadow and Arable	28.467
695		Arable	5.688
Pt. 696		Roadway	1.756
701		Meadow	2.224
Pt. 718		Green Lane	·365
	Total A.		65.923

Lot 7.

(Coloured Light Brown on Plan.)

A Useful Corn and Stock Holding,

Situate on the North-east side of the Hamlet of Little Walden, adjoining the road to Hadstock, and known as

" RAVEN STOCK GREEN "

It includes a

Farm House, Two Cottages, Capital Buildings, Several Enclosures

of Arable and Meadow Land, and a thriving Coppice. The acreage is about

176.071 acres,

and the Rental Value is estimated at

Per £190 12s. annum,

including the SPORTING RIGHTS.

The Brick and Tiled-built Farm House

is now occupied as Three Cottages, and contains Three Living Rooms, Three Pantries and Brew House, Three Privies and Two Wash-houses.

GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

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The Farm Buildings

at the rear are well built, and include Two-bay Open Cattle Shed, Bulls'Barn, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two Cow Sheds for Six each, Chaff House, Cow Shed for Four, Two Calf Pens, Barn, Loose Box, Stable for Four, Fodder House, Poultry House and Harness Room; and on the other side of tl1e road are: Three-bay Open Cart Shed, large Covered Feeding Yard, Cow Shed for Twenty-three, Barn, Boiler House with Copper, Five-Chamber Ensilage House, and Two large Troughs.
At the rear of the Farm Buildings is

A Detached Three Room Cottage,

with Pantry and Garden, and at a short distance

A Similar Cottage,

with Scullery and Garden.
Vacant possession by arrangement.

SUMMARY OF LOT 7.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

In hand

176.071

170

Estimated.

Mr. G. Eldred

Yearly Michaelmas

Landlord pays rates.

Mr. L. Claydon

Ditto

Ditto.

Mr. A. Swan

Weekly

Ditto.

Mr. A. Reed

Yearly Michaelmas

Ditto.

184

In hand

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

176.071

£190

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial, £8 6s 2d.

1½

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
745	In hand	Arable	81.931
846		Ditto	33.062
Pt. 878		Ditto	19.722
882		Meadow	2.723
883		Ditto	1.972
884	In hand and A. Reed and A. Swan	Two Cottages, buildings, etc.	.926
885	In hand and G. Eldred and L. Claydon	Three Cottages, buildings,orchard, etc.	1.908
886	In hand	Meadow	8.454
887		Ditto	11.347
888		Wood	4·081
889		Ditto	2.396
893		Meadow	7·549
		Total A.	176.071

Lot 8.

(Coloured Pink on Plan.)

An Important Corn and Stock Farm,

intersected by good roads and half-a-mile from the Hamlet of Little Walden. It is known as

" MITCHELLS "

extends to an area of about

301.133 acres,

has a Rental Value of

Per £257 10s. annum,

and includes

A nicely situated Farm House, a Row of Four Cottages, Excellent Buildings, Good Arable and Grass Land, and several Well-grown Woods.

The Commodious Farm House

is placed well off the main road, under One mile from the Village of Little Walden and 2½ from the Market Town of Saffron Walden. The accommodation is as follows: Eight Bedrooms, Two Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Larder and Scullery.

CAPITAL GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

The Farm Buildings

are well constructed, capitally arranged, and consist of the following, many of which are Concrete or Asphalt paved: Nine Loose Boxes, Five-bay Open Cattle Shed, Barn, Mixing House, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Stable for Eight, Chaff House, Granary, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two Workshops and Coal Shed, Five-bay Open Cart Shed, Trap House, Two-stall Nag Stable and Loose Box, Tool House, Two Open Implement Sheds, Two Loose Boxes and Three Piggeries.
Within a short distance of the Homestead is

A Row of Four Substantial Cottages,

each having Three Rooms up and Two down. Four Wood Houses, Wash-houses and Four Privies.

GARDENS.

A Brick and Slated Cottage with Garden

and

A Set of Farm Buildings,

known as

"LITTLEYS,"

consisting of Eight-bay Open Shed, Five-bay ditto, Barn and Stable for Two, ranged round a Cattle Yard.

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SUMMARY OF LOT 8.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

J. E. Haylock

Yearly Michaelmas

287.648

221

In hand

(Woodland)

13.485

Estimated.

227

Ditto

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

301.133

£257

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.Value 1916

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Rectorial, £34 18s. 8d.

9½

Vicarial, £2 13s. 4d.

£31

1½

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF ASHDON.
65	Mr. J. E. Haylock	Meadow	1.399
68		Arable	29.307
69		Ditto	8.779
78		Ditto	21.675
79		Cottage, Buildings, etc.	.565
80		Meadow	5.480
81		Ditto	6.216
102		Ditto	32.489
103		Ditto	16.676
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
851		Arable	27.800
852		Pasture	2.299
Pt. 853		House, Buildings, etc.	2.113
854		Orchard	1.301
Pt. 853 & 855		Meadow	8.019
865		Arable	.358
866		Ditto	42.654
867		Roadway	1.963
868		Arable	5.769
872		Ditto	14.834
873		Ditto	25.776
874		Ditto	14.142
875		Cottages, Gardens, etc.	1.245
877		Meadow	2.312
909		Ditto	14.477
				287.648
	PARISH OF ASHDON.
70	In hand	Wood	6.471
104		Ditto	3.060
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
864		Ditto	3.246
Pt. 878		Ditto	.708
				13.485
		Total A.		301.133

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LOT 9.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

A Block of

THRIVING AND WELL GROWN WOODLANDS,

consisting principally of Oak Timber Trees of good dimensions, adjoining a capital hard road and within easy distance of railway facilities. They extend to an area of about

40.743 acres,

and are of the Rental Value of

Per £30 10s. annum.

SUMMARY OF LOT 9.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Mr. A. S. Mills

Yearly Michaelmas

2.904

Apportioned.

In hand

Woods

37·839

Estimated.

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto.

Total A.

40.743

£30

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.Value 1916

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Rectorial, £2 1s 4d.

4¼

Vicarial, £1 2s 8d.

2¼

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF ASHDON.
61	Mr. A. S. Mills	Pasture	·286
62		Ditto	2·618
				2·904
64	In hand	Wood	16.226
67		Ditto	6·716
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
869		Wood	4·979
870		Ditto	3·127
871		Ditto	6·791
				37·839
		Total A.		40.743

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LOT 10.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A COMPACT SMALL HOLDING.

of about

61.358 acres,

Adjoining excellent roads and about One mile from the Village of Hadstock and Two from Bartlow Station, and known as

MONK'S HALL

it includes

A Superior Residence, a Meadow and Two Enclosures of Arable Land,

and is of the Rental Value of

Per £62 10s. annum.

The Substantial Farm House,

Brick built, Slated and Tiled, contains on the GROUND FLOOR-
Two Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Pantry, Cellar, Dairy, Scullery with Two Coppers, Bake Oven and Sink.
On the FIRST FLOOR, reached by Two Staircases-
Four Bedrooms.

The Farm Buildings,

placed at the rear of the House, consist of Two Fowl Houses with Granary over, Trap House, Coal Shed, Two-bay Barn with Concrete Floor, Loose Box, Stable for Three, Root House, Chaff House, Four-bay Open Cattle Shed, Four Pigsties and Cow Shed for Six.

SUMMARY OF LOT 10.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Mr. A. S. Mills

Yearly Michaelmas

61·358

Apportioned.

Ditto

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

61.358

£62

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SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF ASHDON.
58	Mr. A. S. Mills	Arable	32.210
66		Yard	·246
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
910		House, Buildings, etc.	.964
911		Meadow	1.460
914		Arable	26.478

Lot 11.

(Coloured Green on Plan.)

A Compact Corn and Stock Farm,

known as

CLOPTONS,

consisting of

Homestead, Parklike Meadows and Capital Arable Land.

It is about half-a-mile from the Hamlet of Little Walden and Two from Saffron Walden. The total area is about

81.897 acres.

The estimated Rental Value is

Per £90 annum.

Vacant possession can be had by arrangement.

SUMMARY OF LOT 11.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

In hand

81.897

Estimated.

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto.

Total A.

81.897

£90

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.Value 1916

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial, £3 12s. 9d. Value 1916

£3

5¾

The Brick and Tiled Farm House

contains: Three Bedrooms and Two Attics up and Sitting Room, Kitchen with Open Fireplace, Scullery with Two Coppers, Dairy and Pantry down. Garden and Privy.

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The Farm Buildings

include Two-bay Barn, with Cement Floor and Loft over part, Cow Shed for Four, Stable for Four, Loose Box, Implement Shed, Three-bay Open Cart Shed, with Loft over, and Fowl House.

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
692	In hand	Arable	12.366
730		Meadow	4·267
731		Cottage, Buildings, etc.	.493
732		Meadow and Buildings	5.589
733		Arable	11.679
734		Meadow.	2.995
735		Arable	9.477
736		Ditto	12·101
737		Meadow.	22·815
	PARISH OF ASHDON.
73		Meadow.	.115
		Total A.	81.897

Lot 12.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

" SADLERS "

An Excellent Mixed Holding

of about

181.974 acres,

with an estimated Rental Value of

Per £198 annum,

and comprising

A Capital Homestead,

well-watered Meadows, useful Corn and Root Land and thriving Woods. This Lot is in hand, and vacant possession can be had by arrangement.

The Farm House,

which has been converted into Two Cottages, contains: Six Rooms and Attic up, and Five Rooms and Lean-to Wood House down. Garden and Privy to each.

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The Splendid Set of Buildings

is Brick, Slated and Corrugated Iron built and consists of Two-bay Open Cart Shed, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Closed ditto, Five-stall Stable, Clinker paved, large Two-division Covered Cattle Yard, Barn and Granary with Copper, and Cement Floor, and large Dutch Barn.

SUMMARY OF LOT 12.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

J. E. Haylock

Yearly Michaelmas

287.648

221

In hand

181.974

176

Estimated.

Mr.G.Rust

Quarterly

Landlord pays
Rates.

180

In hand

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

181·974

£198

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-

Vicarial,£6 10s. 11d. Value 1916

£5

10d

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF ASHDON.
72	In hand	Wood	1.989
74		Arable	19.899
75		Pasture	14·055
76		Ditto	2.821
77		Ditto	7·056
				45.820
	PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN.
724		Arable	11.274
725		Ditto	10.648
726		Meadow	2.616
727		Buildings and Yards	.547
728	In hand Mr G. Rust	Cottages, Buildings, etc.	.930
729	In hand	Orchard	.367
738		Meadow	13.422
739		Ditto	3.797
740		Ditto	10.866
741		Arable	9.853
742		Ditto	9.085
857		Ditto	5.457
858		Ditto	2.032
859		Ditto	11.947
860		Wood	8.681
861		Meadow	9.382
862		Ditto	11.025
863		Ditto	14.225
				136.154
		Total A.		181.974

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LOT 13.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A Compact Agricultural Holding

known as

" CRAVE HALL, "

Situate in the Parish of, and only about One-and-a-half miles from the Village and Station (G.E.R.) of Great Chesterford. It extends to an area of about

127.551 acres,

and has a Rental Value of

Per £117 annum.

The Farm House

is Brick and Lath and Plaster built, and Slated, and contains: Five Bedrooms, Two Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Scullery with Two Coppers and Sink, and Wood Shed. Cellar in Basement. Garden and Privy.
The BUILDINGS include Paved Stable for Five, Two Loose Boxes, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Fowl House, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two Barns, Granary, Cart and Implement Shed, Pigsty and Two Yards.
WATER from Well by Horse-driven Double Cylinder Pump.

SUMMARY OF LOT 13.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Messrs.J.& N.Jeffrey

Yearly Michaelmas

98.730

In hand

28.821

Estimated.

107

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto.

Total A.

127.551

£117

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS

Land Tax.

£1

11s

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SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
164	Messrs. J. & N. Jeffrey	Arable	33.494
Pt.179		Green Lane	1.290
180		House, Buildings, etc.	1.216
181		Meadow	2.156
182		Arable	16.028
186		Ditto	44.546
				98.730
165	In hand	Rough Pasture, etc.	9.359
166		Ditto	8.414
185		Arable	11.048
				28.821
		Total A.		127.551

This Lot will be sold with the benefit of a Right-of-way over road, Pt. 148 on Lot 14.

LOT 14.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

A Capital Corn Farm,

known as

"BURTON WOOD FARM, "

One-and-a-quarter miles from the Cambridge Main Road and the Village and Station (G.E.R.) of Great Chesterford.
It includes

A Good Farm House and Cottage, an Excellent Set of Buildings,productive Arable Land, and a Well-grown Wood.

The Lot covers an area of about

141.252 acres,

and produces a Rental of

Per £125 10s. annum.

The Farm House 4

is Brick built, Stuccoed and Slated, and contains :
On the GROUND FLOOR-
Two Sitting Rooms, Kitchen with Copper, Scullery and Pantry.
And on the FIRST FLOOR-
Four Bedrooms,
And adjoining is a

Four Roomed Cottage.

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The Buildings,

Brick built, Weather Boarded, Tiled and Slated, consist of: Barn with Concrete Floor, Two Three-bay Open Cattle Sheds, and Two Four-bay ditto, Trap House, Meal House, Six-bay Open Cattle Shed, Stable for Five, Two Chaff Houses, Cart Shed, Loose Box, Four-bay Open Cattle Shed, Open Lean-to Cart Shed and Implement Shed. Garden, Wood House and Two Privies.
WATER is obtained from Reservoir supplied from Well by Horse-driven Three Cylinder Pump.

SUMMARY OF LOT 14.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Messrs. Gowlett Brothers

Yearly Michaelmas

134.317

110

Apportioned.

In hand

6.935

Estimated.

113

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto.

Total A.

141.252

£125

Messrs. Gowlett Brothers' Tenancy of Burtonwood and Common Farms expires at Michaelmas, 1916, from which date the Farms are relet to Mr. L. Howe at the same Rent.

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
150	Messrs. Gowlett Brothers	Pasture	4·854
151		House, Cottage, Buildings, etc.	1.144
152		Arable	7.880
153		Ditto	8.118
154		Spinney	.848
155		Arable and Orchard	32.183
162a		Arable	36.872
163		Ditto	13.240
183		Ditto	29.178
				134.317
Pt. 148	In hand	Roadway	.664
149		Wood	5.394
184		Ditto	.877
				6.935
		Total A.		141.252

This Lot will be sold subject to Rights-of-way over the road, No. Pt. 118, reserved to Lots 13 and 15, and over the roadway marked Q and R from Common Farm reserved to Lot 15, also subject to the right of the owner and occupiers of Lot 15 to draw water from the well.

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Lot 15.

(Coloured Light Brown on Plan.)

A Useful Small Arable Holding

known as

"COMMON FARM "

Placed about midway between the Cambridge and Hadstock Roads, and One-and-a-half miles fromn the Village and Station (G.E.R.) of Great Chesterford.
The area is about

61.145 acres,

and the Rental Value

Per .£51 7s. 6d. annum.

It includes

A Pair of Brick-built and Slated Cottages,

One containing Five and the other Four Rooms. Garden and Two Privies.

The Buildings

comprise: Stable for Four and Granary over, Three-bay Open Cart Shed and Chaff House, and ranged round three sides of a Yard are Granary, Four-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two-bay ditto and Four-division Piggery.

SUMMARY OF LOT 15.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Messrs. Gowlett Brothers

Yearly Michaelmas

58.085

Apportioned.

In hand

3.060

Estimated.

Ditto

Sporting

Ditto.

Total A.

61.145

£51

Messrs. Gowlett Brothers Tenancy of Burtonwood and Common Farms expires at Michaelmas, 1916, from which date the Farms are relet to Mr. L. Howe.

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SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
156	Messrs. Gowlett Brothers	Arable	4·564
151		Ditto	6.122
15s		Ditto	7·567
159		Ditto	7.659
160		Cottages. Buildings, etc.	1.067
161		Trees, etc.	.215
162b & 227			30.891
				58.085
230b	In hand	Common and Buildings		3·060
		Total A.		61.145

This Lot will be sold with the benefit of a Right-of-way over the roadway marked Q and R, leading therefrom through Lot 14, and over the roadway, Pt. 148 (Lot 15), to the Cambridge Road, and with the right to draw water from the well on Lot 14.

Lots 16 and 17 will be offered together, and if not disposed of, will be sold separately.

SUMMARY OF LOTS 16 & 17.

Lot.

Description

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

The Manor Farm, Little Chesterford

198.940

237

The Manor House, Little Chesterford

2.172

Total A.

201.112

£262

Lot 16.

(Coloured Green on Plan.)

The Valuable Dairy and Mixed Holding,

adjoining the Village of Little Chesterford and the main road running from Saffron Walden to Cambridge, and One mile from the Railway Station (G.E.R.) of Great Chesterford. It is known as

" THE MANOR FARM "

and comprises

Two Sets of Buildings, a Pair of Cottages, Excellent Arable and Well-watered Meadow Land bounded by the River Cam.

The total area is about

198.940 acres,

and the Rental Value

Per £237 annum.

The New Set of Farm Buildings

stands in Enclosure No. 25, about a quarter-of-a-mile from the Residence, is conveniently planned, Weather Boarded on Brick Foundations with Corrugated

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Iron Roofs, and consists of: Four-bay Open Cart Shed, Four Loose Boxes, Four-bay Open Cattle Shed, Cow Shed for Thirty-two, with Glazed Earthenware Troughs and Tubular Iron Rail Divisions, Cooling House with Boiler and Pump, Mixing Shed, Chaff House, Five-bay Dutch Barn, Barn with Sliding Doors Seven-bay Open Cattle Shed, Eight-stall Stable, Chaff House and Three capital Yards.
In close proximity is

A Pair of Capital Brick and Slated Cottages,

each having Five Rooms and Pantry. Outside Wood House. Privy and Garden to each.
Also on the Western side of the Village and near the Manor House are the following Farm Buildings: Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two-stall Stable and Loose Box, and Granary with Loft over.

SUMMARY OF LOT 16.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Mr. J. K. W. Burleigh

Yearly Michaelmas

180.329

210

Apportioned.

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

Ditto

18.611

Ditto.

227

In hand

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

198.940

£237

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF LITTLE CHESTERFORD.
1	Mr. J. K, W. Burleigh	Meadow	2.141
2		Ditto	6.134
5		Ditto	3.221
7		Ditto	3.008
8		Cottages, Gardens, etc.	·366
9		Waste	.208
Pt. 11		River Cam	1.478
Pt.13&14		Meadow and Buildings	4.697
17		Meadow	4.901
25		Arable, Buildings, etc.	22.148
26		Arable	20.554
29		Ditto	31.767
64		Ditto	35.477
96		Ditto	29.177
96a		River Cam	.306
97		Meadow	10.859
98		Ditto	3.263
	PARISH OF LITTLEBURY.
				180.329
11		Meadow	.624
	PARISH OF GREAT CHESTERFORD.
65	Mr. E. J. Pilgrim	Arable		18.611
		Total A.		198.940

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Lot 17.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

" THE MANOR HOUSE "

LITTLE CHESTERFORD,

Occupying a delightful and secluded situation on the Western side of the Village.

The Genuine Old Manor Farm House,

believed to have been originally a Monastery, possesses the following interesting features :
Two fine old Gothic Stone Arches, one leading to Cellar and the other to the Dairy, the latter showing traces of having been a Chapel, and containing Chancel Steps, Niche for Chalice, and Stone Paved Floor, similar in design to that at All Saints' Church, Great Chesterford. Several of the Bedrooms have Vaulted Roofs, one has an old Stone Mantelpiece and Antique Moulded Cornice, and there is

A FINE STONE MULLIONED WINDOW,

with Leaded Lights.

The Accommodation

is as follows: Six Bedrooms, Attic Bedroom, Drawing Room, 16 ft. 8 ins. by 14 ft. 8ins., with Canopy Grate and Two Cupboards, Oak Panelled Dining Room, 20 ft. 6ins. by 15 ft., excluding bay, Kitchen, Oak-beamed Ceiling, Pantry, Store Room, Wash-house with Three Coppers and Sink, and Privy.
The Outbuildings consist of Trap House, Six-division Hen House, Fowl House, Store and Pigeon Loft, and there is a CAPITAL GARDEN.
The Lot covers an area of about

2.172 acres,

and is Let, together with other Lands, on a Yearly Michaelmas Tenancy to Mr. J. K. W. BURLEIGH, at an apportioned Rental Value of

Per £25 a.annum.

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF LITTLE CHESTERFORD.
Pt. 11	Mr. J. K. W. Burleigh	River Cam	·094
Pt.13 and 14		House, Meadow, etc.	2.078
		Total A.	2.172

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Lot 18.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

The Desirable Corn and Sheep Holding,

adjoining the main road fro1n Saffron Walden to Cambridge, and One mile from the Village and Railway Station (G.E.R.) of Great Chesterford, and known as

" RECTORY FARM "

It embraces an area of about

209.223 acres,

is of the apportioned and estimated Rental Value of

Per £215 13s. 6d. annum,

and comprises

A Superior Farm House and Buildings, an Excellent Cottage, and Productive Arable and Meadow Lands.

The Double-fronted Farm Residence

is Brick built and Slated, stands in a nicely Timbered Garden, within a quarter-of-a-mile of Little Chesterford.

The House

commands excellent views and affords the following accommodation on Two Floors: Two Reception Rooms, each about 16 ft. 6 ins. by 15 ft,, excluding bay, Kitchen, Scullery with Sink (h. and c.), Wash-house with Copper, Oven and Sink, Pantry and Lean-to Dairy, Five Bedrooms, Fitted Bathroom with Lavatory Basin (h. and c.), and separate W.C. Detached Wood House. Privy.
WATER from Well by pump to cistern in roof.
LAWN, SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER BEDS, AND KITCHEN GARDEN.

An Excellent Set of Farm Buildings,

nearly all Brick built and Slated, are arranged round Four Yards, and consist of: Trap House, Two-stall Stable, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Cart-horse Stable for Eight, ditto for Three, Two Chaff Houses, Barn, Three-bay Open Cattle Shed, Two Pigsties, Two Cow Sheds for Nine, Three Loose Boxes, and Seven-bay Open Cart Shed.

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A recently erected

Cottage or Lodge Entrance,

Brick built, Rough-cast and Tiled, and containing Two Rooms up, and Two Rooms, Wash-house with Copper and Sink down. Wood House and Privy.

GARDEN.

SUMMARY OF LOT 18.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

Yearly Michaelmas

162.542

185

Apportioned.

Mr. J. K. W. Burleigh

Ditto

46.486

Ditto.

In hand

Lodge and Garden

.195

Estimated.

225

Ditto

Sporting

Estimated.

Total A.

209.223

£245

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF LITTLE CHESTERFORD.
30	Mr. E. J. Pilgrim	Arable	16.181
Pt. 31		Ditto	89.943
34		House, Buildings, etc.	1.488
35		Pasture	5.007
44		Arable	12.890
66a		Ditto	37.033
				162.542
Pt. 31	In hand	Lodge and Garden		.195
45	Mr. J. K. W. Burleigh	Arable		46.486
		Total A.		209.223

This Lot will be sold subject to a Right-of-way being reserved to Lot 1 over the road leading therefrom to the Cambridge Road, to Rights-of-way and access for all purposes to the Cesspit and Drain from the Mansion, and to the right to stand guns on No. 45 of this Lot for Shooting purposes on payment of the Rent of £5 per annum.

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Lot 19.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

A Desirable Small Holding,

having a convenient situation in the Village of Little Chesterford, about 2 1/2 miles from the Market Town of Saffron Walden. It is known as

" KINGS FARM "

extends to an area of about

19.944 acres,

produces a Rental of

Per £44 annum,

and comprises

A XV IIth Century Farm House,

with a half-timbered front, and contains: Three Bedrooms, Lumber Room, Dining and Drawing Rooms, Kitchen with Range and Oak-beamed Ceiling, Store Room, Dairy, and Cellar in Basement. Privy.

EXCELLENT GARDEN AT THE SIDE.

The Farm Buildings

are placed at the rear and consist of Store Room, Barn, Two-stall Stable, Three-bay Open Cart Shed, Four Loose Boxes, and Five-bay Open Shed.

SUMMARY OF LOT 19.

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

Mr. J. C. Porter

Yearly Michaelmas, expiring 1916

17.725

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

Yearly Michaelmas

2.219

Apportioned.

Total A.

19.944

£44

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Land Tax.......2s. Od.

SCHEDULE.

No. on Plan.	Tennant	Description	Quantity. Decimal Acreage.	Total Quantity. Decimal Acreage.
	PARISH OF LITTLE CHESTERFORD.
20c	Mr. J. C. Porter	House, Buildings, etc.	·425
21		Meadow	2.103
24 & 37		Arable	15.197
				17.725
36	Mr. E. J. Pilgrim	Ditto		2.219
		Total A.		19.944

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Lot 20.

(Coloured Brown on Plan.)

"THE BUSHEL AND STRIKE "
BEERHOUSE,

Situate in the main street of the Village of Little Chesterford and consisting of a substantial recently erected

Brick-built, Rough-cast and Tiled House,

containing: Tap Room, Devon Brick Fireplace, Beamed Ceiling and Glazed-brick Dado, Sitting Room, Kitchen, Wash-house, Copper, Cellar, Oil Store and Wood House, and Four Bedrooms.

GOOD GARDEN.

The Outbuildings

consist of Barn and Stable for One.

The Lot has an area of about

Half-an-acre,

and produces a Rental of

Per £45 annum.

SUMMARY OF LOT 20.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Description

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

20b

Hudson's Cambridge and
Pampisford Breweries, Ld.

7 Years' Lease, expiring
Lady Day, 1917

House, Buildings, etc.

.180

Garden

.304

Total A.

.484

£45

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Land Tax.......£2 2s. 9d.

This Lot will be sold subject to a Right-of-way over the road at the rear as shown on the Sale Plan.

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Lot 21.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A DETACHED COTTAGE,

Situate on the Eastern side of the Village of Little Chesterford. It is Brick and Lath and Plaster built, with Tiled Roof, and contains: Four . Rooms, and Scullery fitted with Copper. `

WATER FROM WELL. LARGE GARDEN.

It is No. 20A on the Plan, the area is about

.367 acre,

And it is Let to Mr. C. SEAMAN on a Quarterly Tenancy at the Rental of

Per £6 5s. annum,

Landlord paying Rates.

Lot 22.

(Coloured Pink on Plan.)

THREE THREE-ROOMED
COTTAGES,

Situate at the Eastern side of the Village of Little Chesterford, having at the rear Three Wood Sheds, Wash-house and Store Shed, and Two Privies.

GARDENS.

SUMMARY OF LOT 22.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

19a

Mrs. Flack

Yearly Michaelmas

.184

Landlord pays
Rates.

Mrs. French

Ditto.

Mr. C. Seaman

Quarterly

Total A.

.184

£11

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Lot 23.

(Coloured Brown on Plan.)

A DOUBLE-FRONTED COTTAGE RESIDENCE,

with Tiled Roof, having a pleasant and open outlook, and containing:
On the GROUND FLOOR-
Two Sitting Rooms, Tile-paved Kitchen, Range, Scullery, Copper and Sink (Water laid on), Pantry and W.C.
On the FIRST FLOOR-
Five Bedrooms.
Outside Privy and Wood or Coach House and Stable.
WATER from Well by Force Pump to Tank (about 250 gallons capacity) in House. Drainage to Cesspit.
The Lot has a Flower Garden in front and a large Kitchen and Fruit Garden at the back.
It is No. 19b on the Plan, and has an area of about

.284 acre,

In hand and of the estimated Rental Value of

Per £16 annum.

Lot 24.

(Coloured Blue on Plan.)

A CAPITAL GARDEN,

Situate opposite "The Bushel and Strike " Beerhouse, Little Chesterford, numbered 19c on Plan, containing an area of about

.360 acre,

and of the estimated Rental Value of

10s. a year.

lt is Let, Rent free, to Mr. F. Searle, and possession can be had without notice.

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Lot 25.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A Row of

FIVE THATCHED COTTAGES

with

GARDENS,

Situate in the main street of the Village of Little Chesterford. They contain from Two to Four Rooms each, and have useful Outbuildings at the rear.

WATER FROM WELL.

SUMMARY OF LOT 25.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

19d

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

Yearly Michaelmas

.315

Let with Rectory
Farm.

Mr. T. Lee

Quarterly.

Apportioned

Mr. E. J. Pilgrim

Yearly Michaelmas

Let with Rectory
Farm.
Apportioned.

Mr A. Seaman
(Two Cottages)

Quarterly

Landlord pays
Rates.

Total A.

.315

£14

Lot 26.

(Coloured Brown on Plan.)

A BLOCK OF FIVE EXCELLENT COTTAGES,

near the Reading Room, Little Chesterford, containing from Two to Five Rooms each, and having Outbuildings at the rear.

GARDENS. WATER FROM WELL.

SUMMARY OF LOT 26.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

19e

Mr. G. Brown

Quarterly

·282

Landlord pays
Rates.

Miss Taylor

Ditto

Mr. F. Bunn

Monthly

Mr. T. Howe

Ditto

Mr. C. Saville

Ditto

Total A.

·282

£19

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Lot 27.

(Coloured Pink on Plan.)

THE VILLAGE READING ROOM,

LITTLE CHESTERFORD,

and

TWO COTTAGES

adjoining, Brick built and Slated, and in excellent repair.
The READING ROOM is about 36ft. by 16 ft., and has attached a Wash-house with Two-division Slate Sink and Copper.
Each COTTAGE contains Three Rooms up and One down, and has a Wash-house and Coal Shed.

LARGE GARDEN. WATER FROM WELL.

SUMMARY OF LOT 27.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

19f

In hand.

(Reading Room)

·390

Estimated,
Landlord Paying
Rates.

Mr. S. Salmons

Quarterly

Mr. G. Rider

Ditto

Total A.

.390

£21

The Lot is subject to a Land Tax of 9s. 9d. a year.

Lot 28.

(Coloured Violet on Plan.)

A ROW OF THREE COTTAGES,

LITTLE CHESTERFORD.

Standing in a large Garden, well back from the road.
Two have Four Rooms and One Five Rooms. Two Wash-houses and Privies.

WATER FROM WELL.

SUMMARY OF LOT 28.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

20d

Mr. J. Reed.

Quarterly

·222

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Mr. E. Saunders

Ditto

Mrs.Freestone

Ditto

Total A.

.222

£12

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Lot 29.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A Detached Cottage,

known as

JASMINE COTTAGE,

LITTLE CHESTERFORD,

containing Four Rooms and Pantry. Two Wood Sheds. Wash-house with Copper, and Privy in the rear.

GARDEN. WATER FROM WELL.

It is numbered 20E on the Plan, has an area of about

.120 acre,

and is Let to Mr. HENRY BURTON on a Quarterly Tenancy at the Rent of

Per £5 annum,

Landlord paying Rates.

Lot 30.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

THREE WELL-BUILT BRICK AND
TILED COTTAGES,

Situate in the Hamlet of Little Walden, each containing Three Bedrooms, Living Room, Kitchen, Scullery and Pantry. Detached Building, consisting of Two Wash-houses and Two Coal Sheds. Three Privies.

GARDEN.

SUMMARY OF LOT 30.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

707

Mr T.Read.

Monthly

·686

Landlord Pays
Rates.

In hand

Ditto.
Estimated.

Mr. W. Finch

Monthly

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Total A.

.686

£13

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Land Tax (apportioned) 5s. Od.

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Lot 31.

(Coloured Brown on Plan.)

PAIR OF ATTRACTIVE COTTAGES,

recently erected, and situate in the centre of the Hamlet of Little Walden. They are Brick built, Stuccoed and Tiled, and each contains Two Rooms up and Two down. Detached Building, consisting of Two Wash-houses and Coppers. Two Privies.

GARDEN.

SUMMARY OF LOT 31.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

747a

Mr.H.Copping.

Monthly

·152

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Mr. A. Saville.

Ditto

Total A.

.152

£7

Lot 32.

(Coloured Pink on Plan.)

A ROW OF THREE COTTAGES,

Brick and Lath and Plaster built, with Slated Roof, adjoining the preceding Lot, and each having Four Rooms. Detached are Two Wash-houses with Coppers, Three Privies and Shed.

GARDEN.

SUMMARY OF LOT 32.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

747b

Mr. G. Elwood.

Two weeks

·228

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Mr.A. Wright

Monthly

Mr. C. Wright

Rent free

Estimated.

Total A.

·228

£9

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Lot 33.

(Coloured Violet on Plan.)

PAIR OF NEW AND ATTRACTIVE COTTAGES,

with a similar situation to the previous Lot. Brick built and Stuccoed, upper part half-timbered, and Tiled Roofs. Each contains Five Rooms and Pantry. At the rear are Two Wash-houses with Coppers, and Two Privies.

GARDEN.

SUMMARY OF LOT 33.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

747c

Mr. W. Mascall.

Monthly

.185

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Mr. E. Saville.

Ditto

Total A.

.185

£9

Lot 34.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

A CAPITAL COTTAGE,

adjoining the previous Lot, containing Four Rooms, and having detached Shed with Copper and Privy.

LARGE GARDEN.

It is numbered 747D, stands on about

.180 acre,

and is Let to Mr. W. CHAPMAN on a Monthly Tenancy at

Per £4 10s. annum.

Landlord paying Rates.

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Land Tax (apportioned). 2s. 3d.

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Lot 35.

(Coloured Pink on Plan.)

A Detached Double-fronted House,

known as

" POPLAR HALL,"

On the East side of the Hamlet of Little Walden. It is Brick built and Slated, converted into Two Cottages, each of which contains Three Bedrooms, Living Room, Kitchen and Pantry. Privy and detached Wash-house.
Nice front Garden and large Garden at the side.

SUMMARY OF LOT 35.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

721

Mr. J. Francis.

Yearly Michaelmas

.820

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Mr. J. Clarke.

Ditto

Total A.

.820

£9

LANDLORDS OUTGOINGS.

Tithe Rent. Charge (apportioned)-Value 1916

Vicarial, 8d.

6¾

Land Tax (apportioned)

2¾

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Lot 36.

(Coloured Green on Plan.)

A PAIR OF COTTAGES,

adjoining the road to Hadstock, in the Hamlet of Little Walden, one having Five and the other Six Rooms and Wash-l1ouse with Copper. At tl1e back is a Wash-house with Copper, Two Sheds and Two Privies.

GARDEN.

And on the roadside is

A Blacksmith's Shop,

extending in all to about

.404 acre,

and of the Rental Value of

Per £7 12s. annum.

SUMMARY OF LOT 36.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

722

Mr. E. Chapman.

Monthly

.404

Landlord Pays
Rates.

Mr. W. Francis.

Yearly Michaelmas

In hand.

Smithy

Estimated.

Total A.

.404

£7

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Land Tax (apportioned) 2s. 10d.

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Lot 37.

(Coloured Yellow on Plan.)

DETACHED BRICK AND SLATE
COTTAGE,

Situate at Chapelend, Little Walden, and containing on one Floor, Porch and Four Rooms, Detached Brick and Slated Wash-house with Copper, and E.C.

GARDEN.

Numbered 850 on Plan, it extends to about

.377 acre,

and is Let to Mr. F. FRANCIS on a Yearly Michaelmas Tenancy at the Rent of

Per .£4 7s. 6d. annum,

Landlord paying Rates.

LANDLORD'S OUTGOINGS.

Land Tax (apportioned) 2s. 2d.

Lot 38.

(Coloured Brown on Plan.)

A SUBSTANTIAL PAIR OF
COTTAGES,

Flint and Brick built and Slated, and each containing Five Rooms. There is also a Scullery with Copper, Wood Shed and Privy.

GARDEN.

They are situate about midway between Hadstock and Little Walden.

SUMMARY OF LOT 38.

No. on
Plan

Tenant.

Tenancy

Quantity.
Decimal
Acreage.

Rental

Remarks

907

C. A. S. Collier, Esq.

Yearly Michaelmas

.428

Mr. T. A. Greenslade.

Total A.

.428

£10

This Lot will be sold with the benefit of the right of the owner and occupiers to draw water from the well in the Garden at the Lodge Entrance (Lot 3).

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Conditions of Sale.

1. The property is sold subject to the notes and stipulations to be found in the Particulars and also to the following Conditions of Sale and also to the Conditions known as the National Conditions of Sale which shall be deemed to be incorporated herein but so that in the case of any inconsistency between the National Conditions of Sale and these Conditions the latter shall prevail.

2. The title to the various Lots shall commence as follows :-

(i.) As to Lot 13 part of Lot 14 and part of Lot 15 with a general devise contained in the Will of a Testator who died in the year 1900 and whose seisin or ownership shall be assumed without evidence by the Purchaser.

(ii.) As to part of Lot 8 and part of Lot 9 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 1st day of September 1910 and made between the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge of the one part and the Right Honourable James Lyle Baron Inchcape (then Sir James Lyle Mackay and herein-after called Lord Inchcape) of the other part.

(iii.) As to part of Lot 19 with an Indenture of Conveyance and Bargain and Sale (as to part then of Copyhold tenure) dated the 29th day of September 1897 and made between Thomas Reeve of the one part and Thomas Burleigh of the other part. (iv.) As to part of Lot 8 with a Deed of Exchange dated the 30th day of December 1909 and made between the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College aforesaid of the one part and Lord Inchcape of the other part.

(v.) As to part of Lot 4 part of Lot 5 part of Lot 6 part of Lot 12 and Lots 30 and 36 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 19th day of October 1874 and made between Charles Robinson and Randolph Robinson of the first part Randolph Robinson Amyall Edmund Ray and George Fleming of the second part Frances Ray of the third part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the fourth part.

(vi.) As to part of Lot 7 part of Lot 11 and part of Lot 12 with an Indenture of Conveyance and Covenant to Surrender (as to part then of Copyhold tenure) dated the 9th day of May 1863 and made between Henry Balls of the first part Charles Smoothy Joseph Smoothy and William Smoothy of the second part Stephen Smoothy and Mary his wife of the third part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the fourth part.

(vii.) As to part of Lot 4 part of Lot 7 and Lots 33 34 and 35 with an Indenture of Conveyance and Covenant to Surrender (as to small part then of Copyhold tenure) dated the 25th day of November 1865 and made between Robert Dennis Wright and Benjamin Thompson Pyne of the one part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the other part.

(viii.) As to part of Lot 7 and Lot 37 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 20th day of June 1867 and made between Lewis Fry and Elizabeth Pease his wife of the one part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the other part.

(ix.) As to part of Lot 4 and part of Lot 7 with a Deed of Exchange dated the 21st day of December 1869 and made between the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College aforesaid of the one part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the other part.

(x.) As to part of Lot 12 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 3rd day of September 1874 and made between Henry Morgan Vane of the first part the Charitable Trustees therein named of the second part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the third part.

(xi.) As to part of Lot 4 with an Indenture dated the 16th day of November 1874 and made between Amyall Edmund Ray of the first part Frances Ray of the second part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the third part.

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(xii.) As to Lots 31 and 32 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 11th day of October 1875 and made between Peter Portway Henry Hart and Samuel Beard of the first part George Stacey Gibson of the second part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the third part.

- (xiii.) As to part of Lot 2 part of Lot 4 and part of Lot 7 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 14th day of April 1877 and made between Albert Thomas Buck Smoothy of the one part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the other part.

(xiv.) As to part of Lot 4 and part of Lot 6 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 4th day of June 1878 and made between Alfred Hudson Shadwell of the first part the said Alfred Hudson Shadwell and Joseph Quick of the second part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the third part.

(xv.) As to part of Lot 4 (a Blacksmith's Shop by the side of the Hadstock Road) with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 4th day of November 1886 and made between Thomas Green of the one part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the other part.

(xvi.) As to part of Lot 11 and part of Lot 12 with an Indenture of Conveyance dated the 25th day of March 1885 and made between Thomas Mott the Reverend Henry Samuel Mott and Francis Moore of the first part George Guyton of the second part and Edmund Birch Gibson of the third part.

(xvii.) As to part of Lot 16 Lot 17 and part of Lot 18 with an Indenture of Re-settlement dated the 30th day of January 1862 and made between the Most Honourable Frederick second Marquis of Bristol of the first part the Right Honourable Frederick William John Hervey M.P. commonly called Earl Jermyn of the second part the Most Noble Charles Cecil John Duke of Rutland and the Right Honourable John Paynz Earl Spencer of the third part and The Right Honourable John George Weed Lord Forester Baron Forester and the Right Honourable Edward Montagu Granville Lord Wharncliffe Baron Wharncliffe of the fourth part.

(xviii.) As to Lot 24 (then copyhold) with the admittance of Charles Frederick Searle and Ernest Egg dated the 6th day of July 1915.

(xix.) As to Lot 1 part of Lot 2 part of Lot 4 part of Lot 14 part of Lot 16 part of Lot 18 part of Lot 19 and Lots 21 22 23 25 26 27 and 28 and part of Lot 29 with an Indenture of Conveyance and Covenant to Surrender (as to a small part then of Copyhold tenure) dated the 16th day of October 1905 and made between Elise Platt of the first part James Edward Platt of the second part and Lord Inchcape of the third part.

(xx.) As to part Lot 14 and part Lot 15 with an Indenture of Conveyance and Covenant to Surrender (as to a small part which was then and of which about 2 acres is believed to be still of Copyhold tenure) dated the 14th day of October 1905 and made between Henry King of the first part Frank Edwards of the second part James Edward Platt of the third part and Lord Inchcape of the fourth part.

(xxi.) As to part of Lot 2 and part of Lot 3 with an Indenture of Conveyance and Covenant to Surrender dated the 18th day of October 1905 and made between Edwin Frend the Reverend Henry Savill Young and Clement William Joseph Unthank of the first part Elizabeth Salisbury Brewis George Robert Brewis and the said Clement William Joseph Unthank of the second part George Robert Brewis of the third part and Lord Inchcape of the fourth part.

(xxii.) As to part of Lot 13 and part of Lot 14 with an Indenture of Bargain and Sale dated the 22nd day of November 1905 and made between Douglas Thomas Franklin and William Adams of the first part James Edward Pratt of the second part and Lord Inchcape of the third part.

(xxiii.) As to Lot 20 (which was formerly of Copyhold tenure) (a) as to part with the admission of Mary Chapman dated the 4th day of December 1884 (b) as to part with the Will of a Testator who died in 1880 containing a specific devise of such property and (c) as to part with the admission of Albert Chapman dated the 12th day of February 1901 and

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(xxiv.) As to part of Lot 9 and Lots 10 and 38 with the Will of a Testator who died in 1883 containing a specific devise of such property by the general description of " his farm called Monks Hall at Walden and Ashdon then or late in the occupation of Jonas Tree " which the Purchaser shall assume to have passed the whole of such Lot without proof of the said testator's seisin or ownership.

3. As to (a) a piece of Spinney in Great Chesterford containing .848 acres and numbered 154 on the Sale Plan (part of Lot 14)
(b) a piece of Land in Great Chesterford containing .200 acres being Pt. 230 on the said Plan with the buildings and yards thereon (part of Lot 15)
(c) the Land containing 1.290 acres and numbered Pt. 179 on the said Plan (part of Lot 13)
(d) the Lane containing 3.336 acres and numbered Pt. 146 on the said Plan (part of Lot 2)
(e) the Lane containing .664 acres and numbered Pt. 148 on the said Plan (part of Lot 14)
(f) the Lane containing 2.410 acres and numbered Pt. 231 on the said Plan (part of Lot 3)
(g) Small parts of .913 acres of Water Lane numbered 843 on the said Plan and 2.777 acres of Water Lane numbered 822 on the said Plan (parts of Lot 4) (h) a small wooded part of the Lands near Ravenstock Green numbered Pt. 878 on the said Plan (part of Lot 8) (5) part of the Road numbered 9 on the said Plan (part of Lot 16) (j) part of Lot 29 and (k) Great Chesterford Common being Pt. 230 on the said Plan (part of Lot 3) the Purchaser shall take such title as the Vendor may have. The Vendor believes that there are now no rights in the above-mentioned Common which he has not bought up and divers deeds containing assurances to the Vendor of rights in such Common shall be handed over on completion to the Purchaser of Lot 3 who shall also be entitled to an acknowledgment (to be prepared and executed at his expense) of the right to the production and delivery of copies of any deed retained by the Vendor which contains any assurance of rights in such Common.

4. By an appointment of a new trustee made in 1908 the appointors appointed one of themselves as trustee. The appointment was made under a power to appoint " any one or more person or persons " and it shall be assumed by the Purchaser of any of Lots 16 17 and 18 without requisition or objection that the appointment was properly made.

5. The Vendor shall not be required to show the boundaries extent nature or constituents of the said manor of Little Chesterford which is included in Lot 1 or to furnish any other evidence or information in relation thereto than may appear from the manorial books and documents in the Vendor's possession and no objection shall be taken on account of any such books or documents being defective or wanting.

6. Lots 11 and 12 are sold subject to an annual rent charge of 16s. payable to Lord Braybrooke as Lord of the Manor of Chipping Walden the said rent charge is believed to be charged on Nos. 726 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 and 692 on the said plan but no evidence shall be required of this or of the origin of the rent charge. It shall be apportioned equally between the two Lots and no legal apportionment shall be required.

7. Lot 36 and Parts of Lots 4 5 6 and 7 (which premises are believed to be Pt. 842 Pt. 750 Pt. 890 Pt. 840 Pt. 841 Pt. 750 Pt. 819 Pt. 818 Pt. 751 Pt. 752 Pt. 709 Pt. 712 V Pt. 711 Pt. 706 Pt. 717 Pt. 716 720 719 722 Pt. 723 Pt. 745 Pt. 698 695 Pt. 701 700 and Pt. 677 on the said plan) were formerly copyhold and were enfranchised and are sold and will be conveyed subject to all rights reserved by Section 48 of the Copyhold Act 1852.

8. No objection or requisition shall be made on the ground of any covenant acknowledgment or undertaking for the production or safe custody of the muniments of title being defective or insufficient or on the ground of the absence of any such covenant acknowledgment or undertaking.

9. The Purchaser shall assume without enquiry or requisition that all death duties which became payable on the death of any person who died more than six years before the date hereof have been paid.

10. The Purchaser shall in every case be satisfied with and accept as sufficient the statement in the Particulars as to the amount of any Land Tax Tithe Rent Charge Quit Rent or apportioned part thereof or other outgoing to which the property or Lot or part of Lot is now subject or is for the purpose of the present sale to be taken as subject and shall not make any objection on the ground of any Land Tax Tithe Rent Charge or other outgoing not being new or not having been on a former occasion legally apportioned or require the same to be apportioned or

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any indemnity against any part thereof which ought to be borne by other property. As to any property- or Lot which is sold free from Land Tax or Tithe Rent Charge the Purchaser shall be satisfied with such evidence of its being so free as the Vendors may be able to adduce and shall not make any objection on account of the Tithe Rent Charge on any Lot sold as tithe free being unmerged. The respective Purchasers shall also be satisfied with the arrangements made by the Particulars for the apportionment of the rents payable by the tenants in the case of properties held by one tenant being separated into one or more Lots or parts of Lots and shall not require the consent of the tenants to such apportionment or require any legal apportionment of the said rents or make any requisition in respect thereof.

11. No Purchaser shall require any evidence as to any statement contained in the Particulars as to the nature of the shooting the bag for past seasons or otherwise as to the character or value of the sporting rights included in the Sale.

12. The shooting and sporting rights and all rights reasonably incidental thereto up to and including the lst day of February 1917 are reserved to the Vendor and the property is sold and will be conveyed subject to such reservation.

13. Part of Lot 15 comprising about two acres is believed to be copyhold and is sold as such but the Vendor shall not be required to distinguish it from the freehold part of such Lot.

14. Every Purchaser shall be satisfied with such roads and rights-of-way (if any) over land not comprised in the Sale as at present exist without requiring any evidence of the grant or right of user thereof.

15. Any outstanding legal estate shall be got in at the expense of the Purchaser requiring the same to be got in.

16. No Purchaser shall be entitled to any right of light or air which shall restrict or interfere with the free use of any adjoining or neighbouring Lot for building or other purposes and the conveyances shall if the Vendor so requires expressly exclude the grant of such right.

17. The date for completion shall be as follows :-

(1) As to any Lot the whole of which shall be in hand on or before the 30th day of November 1916 that day.

(2) As to any other Lot the 25th day of March 1917.

18. The expression the office of the Vendor's Solicitor in the National Conditions of Sale shall mean the office at 5 Petty Cury Cambridge of Ellison & Co. Solicitors.

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Memorandum of Agreement.

An Agreement made the ..............day of ......................191....
Between.......................................................................................
.............................................................................................. the Vendor of the one part, and ..............................................................
of ...........................................................................................
the Purchaser of the other part whereby the Vendor and Purchaser agree that
the Purchaser has purchased the property described as Lot .............................in the
within Particulars at the price of ....................................................pounds
........................................................... shillings and has paid the sum of
........................................................ pounds....................shillings
as a deposit thereon and the Vendor and Purchaser mutually agree to complete
the sale and purchase in accordance with the same conditions.
Purchase Money £
Deposit £
Balance £
As Agents for the Vendor we hereby confirm this Sale and acknowledge the
receipt of the above deposit.
Abstract of Title to be sent to