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Puxley (Note: by the time of the 1920 sale of this section of the Grafton Estate, Puxley was being considered as part of the Duke of Grafton's holdings in Potterspury, as the sale map clearly shows. The details here are an extract of the list given elsewhere under Potterspury, and are intended to show what happened to the Puxley holdings) LOT 82
A desirable and attractive Farm of 230a, 3r. 35p. of good arable and pasture land, situated in the village of Potterspury. The House is an old fashioned and convenient residence with a charming garden and conservatory, and contains 2 sitting rooms, 5 bedrooms, 2 attics, bathroom (hot and cold water), lavatory, well fitted up kitchen, scullery with soft water pump, store room and larder fitted with cupboards. The Village Water Supply is laid on to the house and outside there is a well of good drinking water with pump, coal house with loft over, wood barn, etc. 3 sets of excellent Farm Buildings. The Home Buildings are stone, slated and tiled, and consist of enclosed calf house ( 42ft. by 15ft.), large barn with two pairs doors and granary over part, root house, cow house for 8 and calf house with rack and mangers, horse yard with 4 bay open hovel and manger, chaff house, 2 pigstyes, well of water, with pump fitted for horse yard, cart horse stable for 6 horses, harness room, coach house, nag stable, loose box, and workshop, 6 bay wagon hovel. Puxley Buildings consist of a Cottage of 4 rooms, large attic and pantry, wash house, barn, etc., well of good water with pump, two 2 bay and one 7 bay open hovels with foddering yard, excellent barn with two pairs of large doors, cow house, loose boxes, cart horse stable with granary over, implement hovel 90ft. long, and an excellent Dutch barn 81ft. x 21ft., with circular roof, and rickyard. Brownswood Buildings consist of an old Cottage of 3 rooms, pantry, wash house, barn, etc., a 5 bay open hovel, with warm foddering yard, large barn with two pairs of doors, and a rickyard. The above is let on a yearly Lady Day tenancy to Mr. D. Gregory at an apportioned rent of £310 per annum.
An excellent water supply is pumped up by a ram in field 204 to a tank in Brownswood Farm Buildings to supply troughs in yards and 5 adjoining fields. The fenced-in portion of parcel 164 is not sold and is in Lease to the Potterspury R.D.C. with various rights and easements of carrying water and otherwise from the well thereon over this lot. The lot is sold subject to the rights of the R.D.C. under this lease (which can be inspected) and to a reservation of a similar right for ever as appurtenant to portion of parcel 164 excluded from the sale. The Vendor reserves the whole of the rest payable under the Lease to the R.D.C. As also a right to the owner or occupier of Puxley Farm to lay a line of pipe and the maintenance of such from the reservoir of the R.D.C. across fields Nos. 165 and 176. LOT 83
A most desirable Holding of 55a. 2r. 28p. of accommodation land. With a number of fine Building Sites fronting Watling Street and the Village of Potterspury, and an old fashion stone and thatched House containing 4 bedrooms, box room and large attic, 2 sitting rooms, kitchen, pantry, scullery, dairy and cellar, with granary, meal house, good well of water with pump, an open yard, duck and fowl houses, coal and wood barns, etc. LOT 116
The stone and thatched Farm House contains 5 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms, kitchen, pantry and dairy, outside is a wash hose, wood barn, orchard, and a well of good water with pump. The Farm Premises consist of an open hovel (48 x 10), meal house with loft over, cart hovel, large barn, loose box, cart horse stable with loft over, pigstyes, 2 open hovels (33 x 12 and 54 x 15) and foddering yards, cow house for 8, wagon hovel and granary over, and in field adjoining there is a hovel (24 x 12) with loft above. The above is let on a yearly Lady Day tenancy to Messrs. Webb at the low rent of £100 per annum.
LOT 117
 A nice old fashioned House known as Hanger Lodge, Potterspury containing 2 sitting rooms, one beautifully fitted with 5 oak cupboards, oak mantelpiece and oak paneling, oak staircase, 5 bedrooms and attic, kitchen fitted with cupboards, larder, store room, cellar and good well of water.The Outbuildings consist of chaff house, stable, with loft over coach house, cart hovel and an old cottage of 3 rooms and cellar now used as a store room. There is a good well of water fitted with pump, together with a garden, orchard and Pasture Land, covering in all 19a. 2r. 38p. |
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