The Wakefield Estate Sale To sell by Auction At the Masonic Hall, Princess Street, Northampton on Saturday, December the 4th. 1920 Commencing at twelve Noon precisely Peirce and Thorpe

Cold Higham

Lot 12
(Coloured Blue on Plan No. 1.)

Potcote Farm

The Timber is to be taken at £450.

There is a good well of drinking water and a large underground soft water tank fitted with pump.

Adjoining there is an excellent range of stone built and slated buildings, consisting of nag stable and boxes, saddle room, coach hose, carpenter's and blacksmith's shops, fowl hose, coal house, oil store, etc. Pig yard with pigstyes, 4 good calving boxes opening into yard with large open hovel, boiling house, implement house.

Beyond there are the excellent set of Farm Buildings, stone built and slated, consisting of cow house for 14 with root house at end, 2 large barns with lofts above, at each end; a 5 bay cart and wagon hovel with granary above, cart horse stable for 7 with hay and harness room at end, 2 large covered yards each 46 by 48 feet, and open yard with 5 bay hovel, implement hovel and large rickyard.

Three stone and tiled four roomed Cottages with barn, etc., and good gardens, stand in Home Field

The Tenant of the Farm in under the obligation to repair and maintain the portions of roads marked A to B and C to D, to the satisfaction of the District Council and in consideration thereof is exempt from the payment of 90 per cent. of the District Road Rate.

LOT 2
(Coloured GREEN on Plan No. 1.)

Lower Potcote Farm containing 332a. 2r. 8p. with a good House and Buildings in the center, in the parishes of Cold Higham and Greens Norton, and let to Messrs. Maycock on a Michaelmas tenancy at the low rent of £325 per annum.

The Timber is to be taken at £400.

Outgoings :-	Tithe	£1 8s 6d	apportioned
	Land Tax	£5 14s 11d
		£7 3s 5d

The buildings are watered by a supply laid on by gravitation.

Adjoining the above are :- 3 substantially stone built and slated Cottages, two containing 5, and one 3 good rooms with pantries, coal barns and washing-house with large oven etc., good gardens well stocked with fruit trees, and a well of water.

The off-lying buildings include a large stone and slated barn, and an excellent 6 bay open hovel and rick-yard.

The Tenants of the Farm are under the obligation to repair and maintain the road between the points marked E and F to the satisfaction of the District Council, and in consideration of such obligation are exempt from paying the District Road Rates.

The House, which is stone-built and slated, is pleasantly situated, and contains 5 good bedrooms, dressing room, 2 attics, oak staircase, dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, front hall, back passage fitted with good cupboards, excellent pantry, 2 cellars, first class dairy and washing-up house with direct entrance from outside. A well fitted up kitchen, servants' bedroom with separate staircase, scullery, etc., and a good kitchen garden well stocked with fruit trees.
There is a very excellent well of Water with force-pump attached.
Adjoining the above are the conveniently situated stone built and slated buildings, consisting of nag stables and 2 loose boxes, saddle room and coach house, loose box, 4 hen roosts, and a 4 bay open hovel with calf pen at end, and yard, boiling house, oil and store house; while a short distance off are the commodious Farm Buildings, stone and brick built, tiled and slated, which consist of cow house for 14, cart horse stable for 6, baiting house for 9, and a 4 bay and 8 bay open hovel with yards, all with racks and mangers, 5 bay wagon hovel, 2 large barns and a 6 bay open hovel and yard.