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The Wakefield Estate Sale
By auction, at the Guildhall Northampton
Monday & Tuesday, Oct. 13th. & 14th. 1919
Commencing at twelve noon precisely each day
Peirce and Thorpe

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Stoke Bruerne

LOT 176
(Coloured MAUVE on Plan No. 15.)

An agricultural property known as " Stoke Plain", in the parishes of Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth, covering an area of 248a. 3r. 31p. Finely placed house with extensive views, and convenient Farm Premises

The House is substantially built of stone and slate, and contains tiled hall, dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, kitchen, pantries, wash house and dairy, two cellars, two staircases leading to large landing and 7 bedrooms.

The Farm Premises comprise two foddering yards with cow houses for 16, calf houses, excellent long barn, two 6-bay open hovels, two 4-bay deep cart hovels with granaries over, large rickyard, cart and nag stabling, saddle room, pig yard with styes, fowl house, etc.

There is a good bed of sand and gravel in 129.

The Farm is let to Mr. T. Wotherspoon on a yearly Lady day tenancy at £237 17s 2d. per annum.

Summary of Lot 176
A. R. P.
£ s. d.
The Farm Mr. T. Wotherspoon
240a. 0r. 23p.
£237 17s 2d
Shooting Rev. E. H. Good
£3 1s 0d
Small Holding Various
8a. 3r. 8p.
£9 11s 4d
Allotments Do.
A. 248a. 3r. 31p.
£259 16s 2d

Outgoing :- Tithe Stoke Bruerne
£28 13s 11d
Shutlanger
£28 9s 4d
Land Tax, Stoke Bruerne
£5 1s 9d
Shutlanger
£3 3s 9d
Do. (Allotments)
14s 6d
Blisworth
7s 4d
£66 10s 7d

Timber to be taken to in addition at £340.
Subject to right of access for Lots 14 and 15. See against those lots.
Subject to the existing rights or user of the village of Stoke Bruerne to take water by the pipes from the spring on Field 101.

LOT 177
(Coloured BLUE on Plan No. 15.)

Stoke Gap Lodge Farm
A compact agricultural property of 147a. 3r. 32p. Situate in the parish of Stoke Bruerne.

The House stands in a fine position on the brow of the hill, and has an excellent garden on it's Southern front. It is substantially built of stone with slated roof, and contains hall, dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, large kitchen with soft-water pump and sink, wash house, large pantry, capital dairy, 2 dry cellars, 2 staircases, large landing, 6 good bedrooms and store room.

Outside is a courtyard and open yard with stable, coach house, 3 pigstyes, boiling house, long hen roost and duck house.

An excellent set of Farm Premises, stone and slated, consist of cow houses for 15, capital barn and good rick yard, one 5-bay enclosed and two 5-bay open hovels, two foddering yards, calf house, cart horse stable for 6, harness room, 4-aby wagon hovel hen roost, a capital large granary.

Two excellent stone and tiled Cottages each of 5 rooms and pantry, with barns, gardens, and well of good water. A petrol engine in a field below throws a never-failing ample supply of excellent drinking water to the house and troughs in the farm yards.

The above is let to Mr. G. Russell at the apportioned rents of £184 and £1 18s 3d. for shooting.

Included is the enclosure :-

No. on Plan
Description
Acreage
41.
Arable
1.600
Let to Mr. S. Martin at the apportioned rent of £2.
AND
40. An Ash Pole Spinney 5.685 Which has been kept in hand.

Summary of Lot 177
A. R. P.
£ s. d.
Farm Mr. G. Russell
140a. 2r. 27p.
£184 0s 0d
apportd.
Shooting Do.
£1 18s 3d
do.
Arable Mr. S. Martin
1a. 2r. 16p.
£2 0s 0d
apportd.
Ash Spinney In hand
5a. 2r. 29p.
£7 10s 0d
estd.
A. 147a. 3r. 32p.
£195 8s 3d

The Timber is to be taken to at £615.

Outgoings :- Tithe Apportionment
£30 19s 7d
Land Tax - Farm
£7 13s 8d
apportioned
Martin
1s 8d
do.
£38 14s 11d

The house on this Lot is supplied with water from a spring on Parcel 45, the overflow from which under the road and supplies Field 47 of Lot 178; the right to this overflow is reserved for that field.

LOT 178
(Coloured RED on Plan No. 15.)

An exceptionally attractive Residential, Agricultural and Sporting Estate known as "The Rookery Farm", situate in the parish of Stoke Bruerne, and covering an area of 322a. 1r. 33p. with a splendidly built House, excellent set of buildings, and a Cottage of six rooms.
The House which stands in pleasant surroundings, is stone built and slated, and contains a large hall, dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, 2 staircases, 8 bedrooms, well fitted with hanging cupboards, store room and w.c. and domestic offices, and dairy.
Outside is a large Brewhouse, nag stabling, harness room, oil house, loft, small barn, wood barn, trap house, long cow house, 2 boxes, 4 pigstyes, and a detached kitchen garden.
Across the road is an excellent set of Farm Premises, comprising a cow house for 12, large barn with 4 pairs of doors, foddering yards and a sheep yard with good shelter hovels. Loose boxes, stabling for 8, chaff house, harness room, and large 5 bay wagon hovel with granary over.

Also a stone and slated six room Cottage, with barn and gardens.

The fields are watered by a stream, springs and ponds (No. 47 being supplied by a spring on Stoke Gap Farm). The Grand Junction Canal supplies the yards, and there is an excellent supply of spring water brought to the house by gravitation.

The above is in the occupation of Messrs. J.E. Townsend & Son, on an annual

Tenancy
£290 0s 0d
Cottage
£2 12s 0d
Shooting
£3 10s 0d
£296 2s 0d

Included in this Lot is :-
No. on Plan Description Acreage
49. Allotment Field
13.762
Producing £21 4s 0d. gross.
47. Pasture
13.270
Let to Mr. G. Russell, at £16 apportioned
196. Pasture
9.482
125. Do.
8.223
Let to Mr. S. Martin at £15 apportioned

Summary of Lot 178.
A. P. R.
£ s. d.
Farm Messrs. J. E. Townsend & Son
277a. 2r. 30p.
£290 0s 0d
Cottage Do.
£2 12s 0d
Shooting Do.
£3 10s 0d
Allotments Various Tenants
13a 3r. 2p.
£21 4s 4d
gross
Pasture Mr. G. Russell
13a. 1r. 3p.
£16 0s 0d
apprtd.
Do. Mr. S. Martin
17a. 2r. 32p.
£15 0s 0d
do.
322a. 1r. 33p.
£348 6s 4d

The Timber is to be taken to at £449.

Outgoings :- Tithe Apportionment:
Messrs. J.E. Townsend & Sons
£76 5s 4d
Mr. G. Russell
£4 1s 1d
Mr. S. Martin
12s 6d
apportioned
Land Tax
Townsend
£12 2s 0d
Allotments
11s 1d
Martin
12s 6d
apportioned
Russell
13s 4d
do.
£94 18s 0d

LOT 179
(Coloured BLUE on Plan No. 15.)

An Agricultural Holding of 124a. 2r. 38p. in the parish of Stoke Bruerne, with commodious House, excellent set of farm premises and 2 Cottages, all adjoining the village.

Summary of Lot 179
A. R. P.
£ s. d.
Farm Messrs. H. A. & H. G. Savage
124a. 1r. 10p.
£162 0s 0d
apptnd.
Shooting Do.
2 Cottages (1) Do.
0.0.38p
£6 10s 0d
gross
(1) Henry Croft
£2 12s 0d
net
2 Gardens (1) Police Constable
4s 0d
(1) J. Scott
0.0.30p.
2s 6d
124a. 2r. 38p.
£174 9s 6d

The tenancy of the farm, which is a Lady Day one, expires at 25th. March 1920.
The Timber is to be taken at £480.

Outgoings :- Tithe Apportionment
£38 17s 2d
Land Tax - Stoke Bruerne
£6 8s 0d
apportioned
Do. (Cottages)
4s 6d
do.
Grafton Regis, nil
£45 9s 8d

The House conveniently and pleasantly situated, comprises an entrance hall, 3 reception rooms, 8 bedrooms and w.c. and ample domestic offices, with open yard, range of stabling and other premises, 2 gardens and a rickyard.

The Farm Premises are exceptionally commodious and well built and surround two foddering yards, both of which are supplied with water by gravitation.
They include range of long cow and calf and feeding houses, carthorse stabling, loose boxes, very deep sheltering hovels, large barn with four pairs of doors, capital granary and deep implement hovel.
Right of access for all purposes is reserved for Lot 180 over the cartway to and from the Highway by the Canal Bridge.
The owner of Stoke Park has right of access over this cartway.

LOT 180
(Coloured GREEN on Plan No. 15.)

A valuable Brickyard near Stoke Bruerne village, with extensive bed of splendid clay, underlying a large enclosure of sound pasture, covering nearly 29 acres, and including a most convenient Wharf and Waterway connecting the Yard with the adjacent Canal

No. on Plan. Description
Acreage
27. Brickyard and Pasture
28.635
26. Water and Wharf
.279
A.28.914

This Lot is let on a yearly Lady Day tenancy to Messrs. H. A. & H. G. Savage, at the very low rent of £60 apportioned.
N.B. - The Kilns and Buildings, and one Trolley Line, belong to the Tenants, and the other Trolley Line to the Grand Junction Canal Company.

Outgoings :- Tithe Apportionment
£10 15s 0d
per annum
Land Tax
£2 10s 0d
apportioned

Access see Lot 179

LOT 181
(Coloured MAUVE on Plan No. 15.)

A very desirable Small Holding of pasture and arable land containing 58a. 3r. 21p. with House, Buildings and Cottage situate in the parishes of Stoke Bruerne and Ashton, in the occupation of Mr. Richard White. Whose tenancy expires at Lady Day, 1920, at the low rent of £79 9s 10d. per annum.

The House which has an outdoor beer license attached, is brick built and slated, and contains 8 rooms, dairy, scullery, cellar and granary, while outside there is a garden, well of water, yard, wood and stone and corrugated calf house.

The Buildings which are built of brick and stone with slate roofs, consist of foddering yard, pigstye, stable, 3 - bay open hovel with manger, cow house for 4, good barn with double doors, cart horse stable for 3, harness room, hovel with one enclosed and 2 open bays, implement hovel, rickyard and cart hovel.

In Gravel Pit Close there is a brick and corrugated cow house , loft and yard.

Outgoings :- Tithe
£10 12s 0d
Land Tax - Stoke Bruerne
£3 0s 0d
Ashton, nil
Grafton Regis, nil

The Timber is to be taken to at £207.

LOT 182
(Coloured GREEN on Plan No. 15.)

A very useful Small Holding of 20 acres of pasture and arable land, and good stone and slated House of 9 rooms, with small garden adjoining, a kitchen garden (across the road) and a suitable set of buildings and yards.

No. 181, the Old Windmill Field, is let to Mr. Sarrington at £1 per annum, the remainder to Mr. A. Childs at £52 per annum.

Outgoings :- Tithe Apportionment
£7 11s 11d
Land Tax
£1 15s 6d
£9 7s 5d

Timber to be taken to in addition at £53.
Subject to the existing rights or user of the village of Stoke Bruerne to take water by the pipes from the spring on Field 158.

LOT 183
(Coloured Red on Plan No. 16.)

The valuable old Licensed Property known as "The Boat Inn" in the center of the village, adjoining the Canal. The House, which is stone built, has 8 rooms, with Butcher's Shop, wash house, open yard, large stable and loft, and good garden adjoining, and is let to :- Mrs. Anne Woodward, at £24 0s 0d net.
Together with the accommodation Paddock and Garden Ground, covering nearly an acre, in Chapel Lane, and let to :-

Mrs. Woodward
£3 0s 0d
net
Mrs. Webb
5s 0d
apportioned
Mrs. Sturgess
5s 0d
do.
£27 10s 0d

Land Tax :- £1 5s 6d apportioned.

LOT 184
(Coloured YELLOW on Plan No. 16.)


A very attractive Small Holding consisting of a stone built house of 5 rooms, dairy, wash house and pantry. Facing the Village Green, a stone built Cottage adjoining, and very useful range of farm premises and yard, including a barn, cart horse stable, cow house, store place, calf house and 7 pigstyes.
Also the Paddock across the road, all let to Mrs. Woodward at £19.

Together with 8 acres 1 rood 23 poles of pasture in two enclosures, one on either side of the road to Roade, with the valuable bed of Lime Stone, and Lime Stone Kiln thereon, let to Mr. James Woodward at £10 10s 0d.

The Timber is to be taken at £6 in addition.

Outgoings :- Tithe on Paddock
7s 5d
Land Tax (Mrs. Woodward)
18s 0d
Do. (J. Woodward)
11s 6d
£1 16s 11d


LOT 185
(coloured YELLOW on Plan No. 16.)

The Rope Walk, on the East side of the next Lot, with brick and slated shed, let to Mr. T. Amos at £2 net.

Outgoings :- Tithe,
9d
apportioned

LOT 186
(Coloured BLUE on Plan No.16)

A long stone and thatched cottage of 6 rooms, with stable, open shed, wash-house, pigstyes, large garden, orchard, paddock, and a stone and slated Blacksmith's Shop and premises covering in all about 1a.1r. 23p., let to H. Underwood at £12 net.

Outgoings :- Tithe,
3/3
apportioned
Land Tax,
11/6
do.

LOT 187
(Coloured BROWN on Plan No. 16)

Two long stone & thatched Cottages on the main street at the corner of Chapel Lane, of 4 and 7 room, each with barn and garden, let to :-

Mrs. White
£3 0s 0d
net
J. E. Townsend
£6 10s 0d
gross
£9 10s 0d

Land Tax, 5/6

LOT 188
(Coloured BROWN on Plan No. 16.)

Two stone and thatched Cottages at the end of Chapel Lane, adjoining the Canal, each of 3 rooms, &c., barn and garden, let to :-

G. Croft
£3 0s 0d
Mrs. Hawkins
£4 0s 0d
£7 0s 0d

Land Tax, 7/-

LOT 189
(Coloured YELLOW on Plan No. 16.)

A row of four capital stone and tiled 5 roomed Cottages with gardens at the front and rear, pleasantly situated at the entrance to the village, and let to :-

Mrs. Cakebread
£8 0s 0d
H. Tew
£4 0s 0d
J. Abbott
£4 0s 0d
J. Wickens
£4 0s 0d
£20 0s 0d
net

Land Tax, 16/-

LOT 190
(Coloured BROWN on Plan No. 16.)

A stone and slated House in Wood Lane, containing 5 rooms, scullery, store room and dairy, with yard and garden, farm yard, barn, cow house, open shed, stable and 2 paddocks, let to Mr. S. Martin at the low apportioned rent of £8 19s 8d. per annum.

The Timber is to be taken to at £48.
Outgoings :- Tithe, 16/6
Land Tax, 7/5.

LOT 191
(Coloured YELLOW on Plan No. 16.)

A stone built Cottage with long orchard and garden, stable, pigstye and fowl house, let to Mr. N. Sarrington at £7 net.
Land Tax, 7/-


LOT 192
(Coloured Red on Plan No. 16.)

A row of three stone and thatched Cottages with gardens and barns, let to:-

T. Woodward
£3 0s 0d
S. Carter
£3 0s 0d
S. Martin
£2 12s 0d
Do. (for Garden)
£1 0s 0d
£9 12s 0d
net

Land Tax, 9/6.

LOT 193
(Coloured Mauve on Plan No. 16.)

A row of five stone and thatched Cottages on Wood Lane, with 4 barns, good gardens and Butcher's Shop with fasting pen at the end, let to :-

Mrs. Woodward
£1 10s 0d
net
Wm. Abbott
£4 0s 0d
Mrs. Welsh
£3 0s 0d
Messrs. Savage
£6 10s 0d
gross
Mr. G. Russell
£6 10s 0d
Messrs. Savage
£6 10s 0d
£28 0s 0d

Land Tax, 18/-.

LOT 194
(Coloured BLUE on Plan No. 16.)

A row of four stone and thatched Cottages adjoining Wood Lane, with gardens front and rear, let to :-

Mrs. Smith
£3 0s 0d
Mrs. Webb
£3 5s 0d
Mrs. Sturgess
£2 15s 0d
Arthur Jackson
£3 0s 0d
£12 0s 0d

Land Tax, 12/-

LOT 195
(Coloured YELLOW on Plan No. 16.)

The adjoining Cottage with barn, pigstye, and good garden, let to H. Mills at £4 net.
Land Tax, 4/-

LOT 196
(Coloured Red on Plan No. 16.)

A stone and slated Cottage of 5 rooms, dairy and wash house, facing The Green, with yard in front, stone and thatched barn and stable, pigstye and hen roost, let to James Woodward at £8 net.
N.B. The corrugated roofing erections in the yard belong to the Tenant.
Land Tax, 8/-

LOT 197
(Coloured MAUVE on Plan No. 16.)

A stone and thatched Cottage at the corner of The Green, of 4 rooms, pantry and cellar, garden, and good tiled barn, let to Mrs. Martin at £3 net.
Land Tax, 3/-.

LOT 198
(Coloured BROWN on Plan No. 16.)

A stone and slated Cottage adjoining Lot 197 of 4 rooms, scullery and pantry, with barn, and garden front and rear, let to Mrs. B. Tew at £5 net.
Land Tax, 5/-

LOT 199
(Coloured BLUE on Plan No. 16.)

A pair of long stone built Cottages near the Bridge, with gardens and appurtenances, including the old cottage and garden at the rear (used as a fowl run), let to :-

Joseph Valentine
£3 0s 0d
Miss Tew
£3 0s 0d
£6 0s 0d
net

Land Tax, 6/-
No back entrance given over Lot 179.

LOT 200
(Coloured RED on Plan No. 16.)

A pair of stone & thatched Cottages very pleasantly situated, facing South, each of 4 rooms, with one tiled barn and large gardens, let to :-

John Valentine
£3 10s 0d
Mrs. Pinck
£3 0s 0d
£6 10s 0d
net

Land Tax, 6/6

LOT 201
(Coloured YELLOW on Plan No. 16.)

A capital stone and tiled cottage of 3 bedrooms, 2 sitting rooms, kitchen, store room, coal house, 2 pigstyes and good garden. Charming situation, high and dry. Let to R. G. H. Tew at £6 net.
Land Tax, 6/-

LOT 202
(Coloured GREEN on Plan No. 16.)

Three good stone built Cottages in a fine situation near the above, with gardens, barns, etc., let to :-

Mrs. Elizabeth Jeffery
£3 0s 0d
Wm. Valentine
£2 12s 0d
Wm. Burton
£2 12s 0d
£8 4s 0d
net

Land Tax, 8/-

LOT 203
(Coloured BROWN on Plan No. 16.)

The row of three stone and brick built Cottages near the above, with gardens and barns, let to:-

The County Police
£6 0s 0d
gross
F. Warren
£3 12s 0d
net
W. J. Burton
£3 0s 0d
net
£12 12s 0d
net

Land Tax, 9/9.

LOT 204
(Coloured MAUVE on Plan No. 16.)

A large stone built Cottage (at the corner, and formerly a Bucher's Shop), of seven rooms, scullery and dairy, with a paved yard and large garden, stable, boiling house, coal house, pigstyes, thatched hovel and beast yard, let to Mr. T. Wotherspoon at £10 net.
Land Tax, 10/-.

LOT 205
(Coloured BLUE on Plan No. 16.)

Two stone built Cottages each of four rooms and pantry, with large piece of garden ground and the Village Pond, let to:-

G. Underwood
£4 2s 6d
Frank Tew
£1 13s 0d
£5 15s 6d
net.

Land Tax, 5/9


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