The Estate Market
The Estate Market is an article published in The Times on 10 may 1921.
The Estate Market
HOUSES NEAR TOWN
SIR A. CONAN DOYLE'S SALE.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has directed Messrs. C. Bridger and Son (Haslemere) to sell Undershaw, Hindhead. The house stands 800ft, above sea level, in grounds of four acres, and there is a garage. To ensure an immediate sale a very low price would be accepted. Other houses include one in the Frensham "pine and heather" area. also with a garage, and having a bungalow in the six acres of grounds, for £4,750. A freehold well-built house at Liphook, with stables and garage, and eight acres bounded by a stream, may be bought for £2,200, and there are other bargains in Messrs, C. Bridger and Son's list.
Goddington, Chelsfield, a modern mansion in the Elizabethan style, containing a lot of old oak panelling, is for sale privately, through Messrs. Norfolk and Prior (Regent-street). There is a private cricket ground in the 370 acres, and the farm buildings were specially built to house Mr. Miller-Hallett's pedigree Jerseys. It is in what may be regarded as the fringe of the Kentish suburbs, being but 16 miles from London. Chelsfield houses and sites, and similar freeholds in the same district, at Orpington, will be sold with possession, in the City on May 25, by Messrs. Edwin Fox, Burnett, and Baddeley (Abchurch-lane).
The Bickley freehold, Oak Dell, a residence with garage and grounds of over an acre, has been privately sold by Messrs. Farebrother, Ellis, and Co. (Fleet-street and Dover-street), and the auction is accordingly annulled. The date of the sale of Paignton properties, announced in The Times yesterday, has not yet been fixed, but it will probably be in June, and locally.
Some of the holders of interests which are to be sold in reversion, on May 19 at Winchester House, by Messrs. Foster and Cranfield (Poultry), are 87 and 88 years of age. The lots include one-fourth share, in possession, of £20,000, subject to an annuity of £750 payable during the life- time of a person aged 63. There is also A leasehold interest, with possession, of five offices in Queen Victoria-street.
Sprowston Court, Norwich, will come. under the hammer of Messrs. Harrods, Limited (Brompton-road), on May 31. It was designed by Mr. Oswald P. Milne, and the brickwork, for which the material was specially imported from Belgium, is of an uncommon and pleasing character. In plan the house is a modern rendering of an old-fashioned design.
The auction, at the Mart, of the old mansion near Leighton Buzzard, Liscombe Park, has been fixed for June 8, by Messrs. Humbert and Flint (Serle-street and Watford). The total area of the estate is 1,574 acres, in the heart of the Whaddon Chase. A modern house and 155 acres at Pavenham, Beds, is to be sold, at Bedford on May 21, by Mr. J. C. H. Robinson (Kempston).
