349
THE ESTATES GAZETTE
Mabch 4, 1899.
MR. H. WEATHERALL, F.S.I.
M_ .
— — to tms issue, is tne youDgesi son of the late Mr. Edward Weatherall, the well-known lawyer of the Temple, and who, at his death, was one of the Chief Clerks in Chancery. He was originally intended for the Bar, at which he would possibly have had considerable patronage, but having a great distaste for the profession of the law, he was, in 1854, placed as a pupil in the office of Mr. Richard Moss (for many years the Conservative Member for Winchester), who, at that date, was the leading authority on the valuation of breweries, distilleries and allied properties.
In 1860, after serving his articles, and at an age (just 21 years), when most young men are still “ improving ” themselves, he joined in partnership his friend Mr. James Green, who had been in the office of Messrs. Chinnock and Galsworthy, and with whom he has been associated for nearly 40 years, a period of partnership almost unprecedented in any existing firm of surveyors. The new firm selected Chancery-lane in which to commence business, and as showing the increase in value of property there, the house they rented was then let to a yearly tenant at £85 per annum, and in 14 years was let on lease at £175 per annum.
Mr. Weatherall has always taken a great interest in compensation and rating cases, and in the rating of breweries and licensed houses he is one of the leading authorities. He was retained as leading surveyor by the London County Council in the great case against the parish of Marylebone, which was probably the heaviest case on record, for had it been fought through, and at the rate it was taken by the Court, it would not have concluded under 10 years; fortunately for all parties the case was compromised, but it showed conclusively that there was a necessity for a closer scrutiny of many of the Metropolitan assessments. He was also the leading surveyor in the case of “ Page v. Ratcliffe,” in which Mr. Justice Stirling decided that there was no “general” goodwill in a brewery apart from the tied-trade and free goodwill, but which for company purposes it was sought to create.
In compensation cases Mr. Weatherall is nearly always retained by the London County Council, and he or his firm has been consulted by nearly all the Government Departments, many of the principal railways, insurance offices and large public bodies. He advises the London County Council, the Charity Commissioners and the Trustees of the London Parochial Charities, and several of the Unions where special knowledge of licensed properties is required. Some of the largest brewery' valuations have been entrusted to him, as also important valuations abroad, specially in Holland and North Germany, notably those connected with the great works of Messrs. Van Den Burgh’s margarine factories, and the moss litter deposits in Southern Holland.
Mr. Weatherall has a first-class reputation as an auctioneer, and frequently occupies the rostrum at the Mart. The easy, pleasant character of his style invariably secures for him a good audience, and the business-like way in which he is able to present the features of any property he has for sale generally ensures a successful result. He has been entrusted with sales of properties of all descriptions, including the important site of Her Majesty’s Theatre, the Forman Estates at Whitechapel, and the Leete Estates at Bermondsey, two of the largest sales ever held in those neighbourhoods.
Mr. Weatherall is a Fellow of the Surveyors’ Institution, having been elected on January 14, 1884.
Of Mr. Weatherall’s two sons, one, the elder, is successfully, engaged as a tea-planter, whilst the younger, Mr. James Dale Weatherall, has been a partner in his father’s firm for some time.
The ESTATES GAZETTE can be obtained of our City Agents, Messrs. POTTLE and SONS Royal Exchange.
Balmoral in 1861. The bedroom in which the Royal pair slept has since then been kept unchanged. It was in this apartment that the outbreak originated. The ׳furniture was saved.
SALES AT MASONS’ HALL TAVERN.
Clapham.
There was a large attendance at Masons Hall on Tuesday, and one property was sold, namely, the Bull’s Head, No. 87, Rectory-grove," Old Town, Clapham, with the house and shop adjoining. In offering these premises. Mr. William Rolfe said there appeared to be a large number of people interested in the sale, and as he had known the house for many years he could say that it stood exceptionally well placed for trade at a busy spot close to Clapham-common, in an unopposed position, and with a large back neighbourhood. The lease has 52 years unexpired, and after deducting the rent of £46 paid for No. 85 adjoining, the rent of the public-house is left at £129. The far-fa-med common, observed Mr. Rolfe, was visited by numerous athletic players, and was a good source of income to the house, which was rebuilt eight years ago. A new line of omnibuses has recently started and now pass the doors, and a street improvement is taking place in the vicinity. The vendor has lately suffered from ill-health, but nearly £400 per month had been the trade, and the takings were likely to be £500 per month in the near future. Competition started at £9,000, and the Bull’s Head was sold at £9,500. For the freehold of the Green Dragon, Nos. 9 and 10, St. Andrew’s-hill, near Printing House-square. E.C., which was rebuilt three years ago, bids ranged from £15,000 to £16,500 when Mr. Rolfe withdrew the property.
New North Road.
Mr. S. H. Baker submitted the important premises known as the Kenilworth Castle, No. 286, New North-road, situated a few paces from Essex-road. Mr. Baker, who said the trade from beer was £200 per month, and particularly dwelt on that from wine and spirits, £150 per month, and from sundries £30 per month, considered the property occupied a grand position in a main road of enormous traffic and in a neighbourhood containing all the elements for trade that could be wished for. It was for absolute sale, if possible. After starting at £22,000, biddings went no higher than £26,400, and Mr. Baker stated the reserve to be £27,000. The Highlander, No. 89, Dean-street, Oxford-street, which Mr. Baker believed would benefit from the improvements taking place in the immediate district, was also offered and withdrawn, bids going from £10,000 to £12,010. Mr. Walter Johnson (Messrs. J. and W. Johnson and Co.) offered the Britannia, cn Fish-street-hill, City, situate near the Billingsgate fish market, and held direct from the Fishmongers’ Company. The house is opened only for short hours, and there was a covenant in the lease for maintaining on the front +he armorial bearings affixed to the premises. Offers from £4,000 to £5,000 were received, but the Britannia was withdrawn.
SALES OF
LICENSED PROPERTIES
AT
Masons’ Hall, London, E.C.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28.
ME. WM. EOLFE, 102, Great Eussell-street.
Clapham, Old Town, Nos. 85 and 87, Rectory-grove, Bull’s Head p.h., u.t. 62 years E.
£R5....................................£9,500
FORTHCOMING 8ALES AT
MASONS’ HALL, LONDON, E.C.
TUESDAY, MAKCH 7, at One o’clock.
J. J. OEG1LL. MASKS and OEGILL, 21, Hait-street. Crown, Chislehurst Common, L.
Camden Head, 456, Bethnal-green-road, L.
JONES, SON and DAY, 586, Commercial-road, Stepney.
Bull and Crown Hotel, Chingiord, L.
ME. S. BEADFOED, Blojmsbury-mansions.
Bear Hotel, Esher, Surrey, L.
ME. S. H. BAKER, 62, Coleman-street, E.C.
Britannia. 45, High-street Peckham, L.
Roebuck, Kennington-cross, F.L.
White Horse, Rupert-street, F.L.
MARCH 14.
WYER, ADAMS and GLOVER, 27, Chiswell- street.
Prince Alfred, Raglin-road, Plumstead, P.R. FLELRET, SONS and ADAMS, 23, Southampton-row.
Ogiander Tavern, Oglander-ruad, East Dulwich, L. MR. R. W. SCOBELL, 25, Bucklersbury.
Ludgate Restaurant, Ludgate-hül, L.
MR. WOODS, Hounslow.
Swan Hotel, Walton-on-Thames, L.
MARCH 21.
JAMES and SIDNEY MOTION, 58, Moorgate-street.
Laker’s Hotel, Redhill, Surrey, L.P.R.
MR. W. ROLFE, 102, Great Russell-street.
Crown and Anchor, 28, Farringdon-street, F.L. Cock Tavern, Love lane, F.L.
Masons' Arms, Maddox-street, F.
WHETHERLV and HASLETT, 133a, Blackfriars-road. King s Head, Borough High-street, F.L.
MARCH 28.
FLEURET, SONS and ADAMS, 23, Southampton-row. Old King’s Head, 282, Euston-road.
Nos. 94 and 96, ’Cannon-street, E.C. The property is only a few paces from Cannon-street railway station, and is surrounded by some of the largest business establishments in the world. The property is held upon lease for a term of 30 years at a very moderate rent, which is nearly all let off. We may add that the proprietress is relinquishing business on account of continued ill-health.
The inhabitants of Bolton axe at present much interested in a licensing case which is being carried to the Queen’s Bench Division. The principal suburban and residential portion of the town, Chorley New-road, has hitherto been free from licensed houses, but a short time ago an estate belonging to an old Bolton family came into the market, and was purchased by a small syndicate, who opened it out for building. In the centre of the land, and in the very heart of this suburb, stands the old mansion, Halliwell Lodge. This was bought by a local firm of brewers, Messrs. Magee, Marshall and Co., and at a recent transfer sessions they secured a transfer of the license of the Rope and Anchor, an old licensed house in Deans-gate, to Halliwell Lodge, and this takes effect from next Wednesday. Mr. Alfred T. Davies, barrister, has been instructed to appeal against the magistrates’ decision. No licensing case in Bolton ever aroused so much interest.
The assessment of licensed houses was the subject of a paper read by the secretary of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Licensed Dealers’ Union, last week, at the meeting in Pembroke Hotel, Portsmouth. One would think, he .-:aid, that assessment authorities would strive to ascertain definitely what an ordinary tenant would give for premises, instead of doing as some committees did, trying to find out the actual trade done, a basis which he contended was most fallacious, as it was not, in any business, the trade done, but the premises which were assessable. The trade yielded a profit, or should do so, and then paid tribute to the National Funds in the shape of income tax, and it was manifestly unfair that it should be taxed over again by being made the basis of computation for arriving at the annual value. Quoting from the report of the Royal Commission on local taxation, he summarised their recommendations as:	(1) One assessing
authority for all purposes; (2) Competent professional valuers, not amateurs, or biased persons ; (3) Notice of assessment being raised ; and (4) One collection instead of several. With these he cordially agreed, and suggested that the only fair way to regard licensed premises was to compare them with other business premises of similar style, structure and situation, and to ascertain what rent was ordinarily paid for them.
The metropolis is particularly fortunate in the number and the loveliness of its suburban pleasure resorts ; but if we were asked to name the spot most favoured by persons of all classes, we should unhesitatingly say Epping Forest. Situated in the best and prettiest part of the Forest is the magnificent block of newly-erected fully-licensed premises, known as the Bull and Grown Hotel, Chingford, which Messrs. Jones, Son and Day will offer for sale at the Masons’ Hall Tavern, Basinghall-street, E.C., on March 7. The premises comprise an exceedingly well-built modern structure in red brick, having a noble elevation embellished with Doulton ware, and handsome colonnade front with balcony over. Every care has been taken to render the accommodation most suitable for carrying on the combined hotel, restaurant and retail businesses with the greatest possible efficiency and economy, and to meet the very rapidly-growing requirements of the locality. The premises include a very handsome masonic or banqueting-hall on the ground floor, and a grand billiard or ball room on the first floor.
Following the recent sale at Masons’ Hall Tavern of the Greyhound Inn, in Kensingtun-square, by Messrs. J. J. R. Green and Co., it is notified that the old premises are to be demolished. Although the tavern is said to have been in existence for three and a half centuries, it is unmistakeably a Jacobean production. Among the famous people living in the square were the Duchesse de Mazarin, Addison, Talleyrand and James Mill, whilst Thackeray has made it live for all time in the pages of Esmond, as the place where Lady Castlewood resided ; here also James III. stayed ready for action when Queen Anne should die. Indeed, memories of Thackeray and Macaulay are associated with the Greyhound, and Pope visited it sometimes.
Fettercairn Hotel, Kincardineshire, which adjoins the estate of Fasque, the seat of Sir John Gladstone, narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire on Monday. The building has a special interest, owing to the circumstance that the Queen and Prince Consort, prior to the opening of the Aberdeen Railway, stayed the night a!t the hotel on their return south from
Furthermore, in England, the spruces have been called Abies, and the firs Picea, which is an error and contrary to American and Continental authority.”
It will be well for Forestry students to note this.
QUERIES AND REPLIES.
Would you be so good as to name enclosed twigs 1—E. BRAND.	[706]
(1) Lime, Titlei Europma.—(2) Ditto.—(3) Goat Willow. Salix caprta.—(4) Horse chestnut, JEsculus Hippocastanam. —(5) Apparently lime: but the specimen is dry ano meagre.—(6) Elm—(7) Euonymus, or Spindle tree.
N. B—There is no specimen of Hornbeam among those sent.
LICENSED PROPERTY NOTES.
A slight rally characterised the business at Masons’ Hall Tavern on Tuesday, the Bull’s Head, in Old Town, Clapham, being sold by Mr. William Rolfe for £9,500. The trade done has been £400 per month. The most important among the other properties on sale was the Kenilworth Castle, in New North-road, where the trade has been £380 per month, but this was withdrawn by Mr. S. H. Baker at £27,000.
There was quite an array of public-house and hotel valuers called on Monday, before Mr. H. T. Steward, F.S.I., sitting as Arbitrator under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, to determine the value of the Hope Tavern, Blackmoor-street, Clare-market. The witnesses for the claimant included Mr. Thomas J. Weaver (of the firm of J. J. Hill and Weaver), and Mr. William Rolfe; and for the London County Council, Mr. Thornton (Messrs. Thornton, Lumsden and Newman), Mr. Henry Weatherall, F.S.I., and Mr. John Marks (Orgill, Marks and Orgill). Other licensed premises were also the subject of valuations.
Lieut.-Colonel Wetherly, head of the firm of Wetherly and Haslett, Blackfriars-road, presided at the Hotel Cecil on Monday week over the banquet given in honour of Mr. E. A. Pocock, who has recently retired from the position of London agent of Robinson’s Brewery Company, Burton.
Mr. Valentine Fowler offered at Scarborough, on February 24, the Old Globe Hotel, in Globe-street, the property of the trustees of the late Councillor Joseph Saynor. There was a very large attendance, and, as Mr. Fowler stated, the house is of historic interest, as having been the home of the masonic fraternity for many generations. The bidding started at £2,000, and the house was withdrawn at £2,200.
Redhill, once a delightfully sequestered Surrey town, rose rapidly into importance both as a commercial and residential centre in consequence of its position at the railway junctions, and the fine views it commands over the Weald. Side by side with the development of the district has gone on the growth and expansion of Laker’s Hotel, which occupies an imposing position facing the main entrance to Redhill station. The business of this house has continually improved until the increased business demands further accommodation. A large posting business is attached to the hotel.	The	property
has been in the occupation of the present family for 53 years, and is to be offered for sale, in the form of a rental with reversion to possession, at Masons’ Hall Tavern by Messrs. James and Sidney Motion, on March 21.
The new Hop Market Hotel, Worcester, is being rebuilt from the accepted design of Messrs. Henry Rowe and Son, of Worcester, which shows that the Foregate and Sansome-street corner will be occupied in due course by a handsome structure, affording very superior accommodation. The rebuilding is consequent upon the proposed widening of Foregate-street by the Corporation of Worcester, the width of this main thoroughfare being at the present time very limited, and with tram and vehicular traffic is frequently congested. The hotel was erected early in the present century on the site of i warehouse. Owing to the large area of the site required as a courtyard for the transaction of business, the space left for hotel accommodation is limited, and is little more than one room deep, and it has been found necessary to utilise the basement for administrative purposes, billiard room, stores, etc. The bar, coffee and commercial rooms have been arranged as conveniently as circumstances would permit. There will be a limited number of private sitting rooms and about 36 bedrooms.
A rare opportunity will soon be offered to those desirous of obtaining a licensed property-in one of the finest positions in the City of London, by Messrs. Barker, Cathie and Finch, who will offer for sale at an early date the exceedingly valuable lease and goodwill of the celebrated and well-positioned wine and spirit establishment, known as the Cock and Bottle,