Mat 13, 1899.
THE ESTATES GAZETTE
790
Compensation Cases.
BRICKFIELDS NEAR CHATHAM.
Mr. Daniel W atney, P.P.S.I. (Messrs. Watney and Sons, 33, Poultry, E.O.), concluded the hearing as Umpire, at the Surveyors’ Institution, on Saturday, of the case of “ Batchelor v. Brompton, Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester Water Company,” which was a claim of £77,743 compensation in respect of the Chatham brickfield, at Luton, near Chatham, and covering an area of 20 acres, acquired for water supply purposes. The case has been reported in the Estates Gazette of February 25, March 18 and 25, and April 15 and 29.
Mr. Graham Harris, C.E. (Messrs. Bramwell and Harris, 5, Great George-street, S.W.), was arbitrator for the claimant; whilst Sir John Whittaker Ellis׳, F.S.I. (Messrs. Farebrother, Ellis and Co., 29, Fleet-street, E.O.), acted׳ in a similar capacity on behalf of the water company.
Mr. Balfour Browne, Q.C., and Mr. Morton Smith (instructed; by Messrs. Haywood and Smith, Rochester) were counsel ׳for the claimant; and Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P., wiiii whom was Mr. Danckwents and Mr. Herbert St. George Peacock (instructed by Messrs. Prall, Son and Prall, Rochester), for the respondents.
Counsel on both sides proceeded to reply on the whole case.
Sir Edward Clarke, Q.O., for the water company, said the case was an extraordinary one ; there had been a remarkable divergence of opinion on both sides, whilst there had; certainly been a mistake on one side as regards principle. The claimant bought this land with the knowledge of an element in it of brick-earth, a fact also known to other people competing ־with him. in the market. The claimant had not carried on any actual profitable business on the 14 acres, which comprised the principal part of his claim, and what he had done in no way altered the value to ־which he was entitled under the award. He had shown, but need not have done so, that brick-making could be carried on at this׳ field. Sir Edward pointed to the extraordinary contrast between the price given for the land and the price now put upon it. About £31,320 was claimed for brick-earth and flints in the scheduled land, based on ■the proposition that everything must be successful. Counsel submitted that there was an ordinary way of valuing such land; there was a recognised royalty paid for tested brick-earth in addition to the market value. Henceforth the claimant would have no responsibility, and would be relieved from the trouble and anxiety in working the field, but the Umpire was still asked to give him a sum of money which would renresent in present value every shilling he could have obtained had he. been unbrokenly successful in carrying on this business. If the claim of £31,319 stood alone, it would be amazing enough, but the additional cosit of work׳ng brick-earth on lands not scheduled was added, to the extent of £17,937. This was for brick-earth which they were not taking away, which the claimant would have and be able to work. He asked the Umpire to dismiss that item altogether ; he referred׳ to it just to show the extravagance of the claim. There was also the additional cost of buying bricks for contracts in hand. It meant that onerous contracts had. been made which required such a quality of bricks to be delivered that nobody else would provide them at anything like the price named. This was a more than ingenious duplication of the claim because extragavant profits were asked for on the ground that the contract was extremely valuable, and £8,000 because the bricks could be supplied lower than anybody else. These two items, he submitted, were mutually destructive. The claim of £9,555 for building land and farm buildings came out at £475 per acre, a price unheard of in anybody’s experience in dealing with property in this place. He ■should ask the Umpire to deal with the building land claim as ־the only real item in the case, always admitting that the land was enhanced in value by the presence of brick-earth. Assuming the land was used foi cottages, the owner must take his farm buildings down himself. As! to the capital expended in laying out the Chatham field, he had agreed to a schedule of the machinery put in, but the matter certainly seemed to have been׳ hurried and carried out in a singularly lavish manner. If the Umpire found, as he submitted he would on the evidence, that there had׳ been unnecessary and unsatisfactory haste about this matter, he would severely discount the amount claimed in this resnect. There had been great exaggeration about the capacities of the Chatham field itself, and about the destruction of the business by taking the field. At Darland there was an enormous reserve of brick-earth, whilst on the other side of the road there was a large area containing brick-earth in almost every direction where it was possible for the business to be carried on. In the sums his. witnesses had put down, there was a large compensation for disturbance, whilst their valuations allowed not only every element of value for brick-earth, but was ample and generous to cover any loss
LONDON AND BERKSHIRE.
Wm. R. NICHOLAS & Co. Auctioneers & Estate Agents, Blagrave Street, Reading, & 60, Pall Mall, S.TB
BIRMINGHAM.
GRIMLEY & SON, F.S.I.,
Auctioneers. Surveyors and Estate Agents.
SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE and DERBYSHIRE.
GLENHAVEN, ELSTREE, HERTS.
Within three minutes of Elstree Station on Midland line.
־ll/fESSRS. WM. R. NICHOLAS and CO.
1Y_L will Sell by Auction (unless previously sold privately), at the Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C., on Friday, June 9, 1899, at Two o’clock, in One or more Lots, that delightful old-fashioned PROPERTY, known as Glenhaven, comprising the residence, together with lawns, kitchen garden, paddock and five large glasshouses.
Particulars of sale may be obtained of the Auctioneers, Blagrave-street, Reading, and 60, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
THE UPPER LINK ESTATE, HURSTBOURNE, HANTS, situate in a favourite district between Basingstoke and Andover, and comprising a very choice farm of some 345 acres.
ELLEN and SON, of Andover) will Sell the above by Auction (unless previously sold privately), in One or more Lots, at the Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, London, E.C., on June 5, at Two o’clock precisely.
Particulars may be obtained of the Auctioneers, Blagrave-street, Reading, and 60, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
PRESTWOOD, BUCKS,
Within two miles of Great Missenden Station, and four of High Wycombe, 600ft. above sea level.
T\/TESSRS. WM. R. NICHOLAS and CO. will JA_L Sell by Auction, at the Auction Mart, E.C., on June 5, the FREEHOLD PROPERTY, known as Knives Farm, comprising about 100 acres (including a valuable wood of beech and oak, about 25 acres). Capital house, homestead and two cottages, also some choice Building Sites.
Particulars and conditions may he obtained of Edward Parker, Esq., solicitor, Thame, Oxon; and of the Auctioneers, Blagrave-street, Reading, and 60, Pall Mall, S.W.
CHADLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE, situate three miles
from Charlbury and four miles from Chipping
Norton Stations.
1Y/TESSRS. WM. R NICHOLAS and CO.
•Hi- have received instructions to Sell by Auction (unless previously disposed of privately), at Oxford, early in June, the delightful FREEHOLD PROPERTY known as The Cottage Chadlington It contains eight bed and dressing rooms, bath room, three reception rooms, large hall, and good domestic offices, etc.; capital stabling; the grounds are exceedingly picturesque, and include tennis lawn, well-stocked kitchen garden, with range of glasshouses, etc. Seven Cottages, small farmery, and paddocks, in all about 6J acres.
Further particulars will appear in due course, and may meanwhile he obtained of the Auctioneers, Blagrave-street, Reading, and 60, Pall Mall, S.W.
DEVONSHIRE.
MESSRS. HUSSEY & SON
(Established over a Century), Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Agricultural, Tenant-Right, Timber and other Valuers,
EXETER, DEVON.
Stock, Timber, and all Classes of Sales and Valuations undertaken on Moderate Terms. Telephone : No. 21, Exeter.
WOODBURY, DEVON.—Close to the rail-
VV way station.—A well-situated Freehold Farm, known as Exton, comprising an excellent farmhouse and suitable premises, barn, stabling, cow houses, piggery, garden, and about 80 acres of pasture, orchard and arable land, the greater portion of which is well suited for building purposes, and has many eligible sites thereon. Freehold price £3,500. —For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hussey and Son, auctioneers, etc., 14, Queen-street, Exeter.
T^XETER.—Desirable Freehold Residence, -L-J known as No. 28, West Southernhay, Exeter, until recently in the occupation of Dr. L. H. Tosswill, containing, on the top floor, two attic bed rooms, box room; on the second floor, two bed rooms, dressing room, w.c., and hot and cold water supply; on the first floor, drawing room, with balcony, bed room; on the ground floor, entrance hall, dining room, morning room, lavatory, and w.c. In the basement schoolroom, kitchen, housemaid’s pantry, scullery, wine, coal, and wood cellars. Outdoors, larder and servants’ w.c. Gas and water are laid on and electric light. In the rear is a garden with a back entrance, and the occupier has the joint right of using the pleasure ground in front of the houses. Rent £63. Price £1,100.— For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hussey and Son. as above.
FREEHOLD BUILDING LAND,
At KING’S HEATH;
And well-situated
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD WEEKLY PROPERTIES.
To be Sold by Auction, by
MESSES. GRIMLEY and SON, on Thursday, May IS, 1899, at the Grand Hotel, Colmore-row, Birmingham, at Seven o’clock to the minute: — PARKEB-S׳EEBE׳r (Near Monument-road).
Lot 1,—A FREEHOLD PROPERTY־, consisting of Five well-arranged Terrace Dwelling Houses, known as Cox’s Buildings, Parker-street, Ladywood, with the outbuildings and! large garden plots thereto, in the occupation of weekly tenants, at rents amounting to £63 14s. per annum. Area of land, 850 square yard's.
WILLOW-ROAD and HALLAM-STREET, BALSADL HEATH.
Lot 2.—Am important and: substantially built Corner LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, comprising the well-established •Grocer’s Shop (with wine license attached), known as the Cannon Hill Stores, No. 1, Willow-road, let to Mr. J. B. Jackson on a lease for 10 years from September 29, 1893, the tenant paying all rates and taxes, and keeping the interic>r of the premises in repair and painting the exterior, at a yearly rent of £45, the premises comprising commodious retail shop (with plate glass windows), sitting room, kitchen (with private entrance from the street), three cellars, and six rooms on the upper floors, with private yard; and' w.c.; and the Six Dwelling Houses, Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 8, Willow-road, and! Nos. 43 and 44, Hallam-street, let at weekly rents amounting to £138 9s. per annum. Each house contains entrance hall, parlour, sitting room, kitchen, and three bed rooms, with cellar, private yard, w.c., and garden. Total yearly rental £183 9s.
Leasehold for an unexpired term of about 90 years, subject to a ground■ rent of £38 per annum.
KING’S HEATH.
Lot 3.—A pleasantly situated PLOT of ripe FREEHOLD BUILDING LAND, having a frontage to Alcester-road, between the residences known as Brankscombe and Osborneville, and containing 2,200 square yards or thereabouts.
The above land is within ten minutes of King’s Heath Railway Station, near the tram terminus and' the village of King’s Heath, and is ripe for building purposes.
QUEEN-STREET, SPARKBROOK (Near Alfred-street).
Lot 4.—A pleasantly situated LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, consisting of ,Six Dwelling Houses, known as Clifton Terrace, Queen-street, Sparkbrook, let to weekly tenants at rents amounting to £74 2s. per annum, with outbuildings, w.c.., etc., each house having a separate garden plot in front. Leasehold for :a term having 76 years unexpired on September 29, 1898, subject to a yearly ground rent of £14. A considerable sum has been recently expended in putting the above houses in thorough order and repair.
ALFRED-STREET, SPARKBROOK.
Lot 5.—A well-letting LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, Nos. 39, 40, 41 and 42, Alfred-street, Sparkbrook, consisting of Four double-front Dwelling Houses, each containing parlour, kitchen, scullery, and two bedi rooms, with private yards and out-offices, and Two double Dwelling Houses and outbuildings in the rear, in the occupation of weekly tenants at licderate rents amounting to £72 16s. per annum. Leasehold for an unexpired term of 71 years from September, 1898. Ground rent £15.
Lot 6.—SEVEN similar DWELLING HOUSES, adjoining the last Lot, Nos. 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, Alfred-street; and Two Houses and out-offices in the rear, let at moderate weekly rents amounting to £85 16s. per annum. Term unexpired 71 years from September, 1898. Ground rent £15 10s.
BOWYER-ROAD, SALTLEY.
Lot 7.—A well-letting LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, consisting of Six conveniently arranged Dwelling Houses, known as Arden Villas, Nos. 107, 109, 111, 113, 115 and 117, Bowyer-road, Saltley (within five minutes’ walk of Adderley-park Railway Station), let to quarterly tenants at rents producing £144 per annum. Each house contains vestibule, entrance hall, parlour, sitting room, kitchen (with range), scullery, three bed rooms, bath room (with hot and cold water), two w.c.’s, yard, and■ garden. The property is Leasehold for an unexpired term of 95 years from September 29, 1898. Ground rent £15 10s. Quantity of land 1,490 square yards.
Estate of Mrs Emily Smith, deceased.
By direction of the Executors. HAWKES-STRBET.
Lot 8.—A substantially built FREEHOLD DWELLING, known as Rose Cottage, 46, Hawkes-street, Small Heath, with the shopping, premises, and garden thereto, in the occupation of Mr. C. Darwent, at the yearly rental of £18, the tenant paying rates and taxes (except water rent). The property has a frontage of 6\ yards, and contains 260 square yard's or thereabouts.
WRIGHT-STR EET.
By the same direction.
Lot 9.—A well-arranged■ FREEHOLD PROPERTY, comprising the front Dwelling House, No. 58, Wright-street. with the private yard and garden thereto, in the occupation of Mi. Hawkins, at a weekly rent amounting to £18 4s. per annum. Area of land 260 square yard's or thereabouts.
Lot 10.—A FREEHOLD DWELLING HOUSE, known as Spring Cottage, Wright-street, with the out-offices, yard and garden thereto, let to Mr. Turner, at a weekly rent amounting to £15 12s. per annum. Area of land 294 square yards or thereabouts.
By direction of the Trustees of the Estate of Stephen Bloomer, deceased'.
REGENT-PARK-ROAD, SMALL HEATH.
Lot 11.—A pleasantly situated LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, Nos. 20 and 22, Regent-park-road, consisting of Two well-built front Dwelling Houses and Four Houses, known as Regent Park Terrace, and outbuildings thereto in the rear, in the occupation of weekly tenants, at rents amounting to £76 11s. per annum. Term unexpired 64 years from June 24, 1899. Ground rent £7 16s. 3d.
NEW JOHN-STREET (near Aston-road).
Lot 12.—A FREEHOLD PROPERTY, comprising Ten Dwelling Houses, two of which are front, and numbered 64 and 65, New John-street, the remainder being in large yard at the rear, in the occupation of weekly tenants, at rents amounting to £100 2s. per annum. The property is subject to a perpetual rent-charge of £7 per annum.
Solicitors: Lot 1. Messrs. E. C. Newey and Son, Colmore-row; Lot 2, Mr. Alfred Hodges. 44, Waterloo-street; Lot 3, Messrs. Green and Williams, 102. Colmore-row; Lots 4, 5 and 6, Messrs. Jaqnes and Son. Colmore-row; Lot 7, Messrs. Gem, Docker and Tarleton, Bennett’s-hill; Lots 8, 9, 10 and 11, Messrs. Jacob Rowlands and Sons, 121, Colmore-row; Lot 12, Mr. T. Cartwright Frith, Temple-street.
Auctioneers’ Offices. 39 and 40, Temple-street, Birmingham.
NICHOLSON, GREAVES, BARBER, and HASTINGS,
Estate & General Auction Mart, 2, HIGH STREET,
RINGWOOD HALL ESTATE,
Near CHESTERFIELD, DERBYSHIRE.
To be Sold by Auction, by
MESSRS.	NICHOLSON, GREAVES,
BARBER and HASTINGS, at their Estate Aug-tion Mart, No. 2, High-street, Sheffield, on Tuesday, May 16, 1899, at Four for Half-past Four o’clock in the afternoon precisely, subject to the Conditions of Sale of the Sheffield District Incorporated Law Society and to the Special Conditions1 printed with the particulars of sale: —
All that valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, comprising a fine old family Mansion House, known as Ringwood Hall, and the property surrounding it, comprising about 110 acres of undulating grass land and woods, the mansion standing in a well-timbered park, in which there is a large ornamental lake.
The Mansion House contains large entrance hall with outer porch, five reception rooms on the ground floor, namely, drawing room, 29ft. 4in. by 19ft. 6in., and lesser drawing room, 19ft. 6in. by 14ft. 6in., library, 19ft. 6in. by 10ft., dining room, 27ft. by 20ft. 3in., opening into a large conservatory, smoke room, 17ft. 6in. by 15ft., and billiard room, 29ft. by 20ft. 6in. There are front and back staircases, and 24 bed and dressing rooms, two bath rooms and first-class sanitary and domestic arrangements, including well-fitted basement and cellars.
The Stables comprise eight loose boxes and two standings, and there are three coach-houses and hay and straw chamber and five rooms over.
Gas and hot and cold water are laid on, and th«re is a most complete system of drainage.
The Grounds include Italian garden, tennis lawn, two conservatories, three peach houses, greenhouse, three stove houses, laundry, out offices, two kitchen gardens., e׳fcc.; there is also an excellent Home Farm, and there are three well-built Lodges on the estate.
The Park and Plantations! afford1 good shooting, and further shooting over a large manor could probably be arranged for. The Rufford, Earl Fitz-Williams’, Lord Galway’s and South Notts Hounds are within reach, and the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway affords great facilities for hunting, and brings the estate within easy reach of the Dukeries
There is! excellent railway accommodation: Chesterfield, about 2i miles distant, has three stations, one on main Midland about three hours from London, another on branch of Great Central (about two miles from main line), and; a third the terminus of Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (Chesterfield to Lincoln).
Parish church and post and telegraph office quarter of a mile distant.
The Lake in the park is leased to the Great Central Railway Company for a term of which nearly 54 years are unexpired at a minimum water rent of £200 a year in addition to further royalties. The Company have for some time past been paying considerably over the minimum rent.
The exclusive right of fishing, boating and bathing is reserved to the owner of the estate, the Railway Company’s rights being restricted to the use of the water.
Printed plans, particulars and conditions of sale with photographs of the hall and grounds attached, can he had1 on application to the Auctioneers; to Mr. W. D. Wadsworth, junr., surveyor, NewboLl-road, Chesterfield; or to Messrs. Shipton, Hallewell and Co., solicitors, Chesterfield.
THE WHITE HART, GREENHILL,
Near Sheffield.
VALUABLE freehold fully-
V LICENSED FREE PUBLIC-HOUSE.
To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. NICHOLSON. GREAVES, BARBER and HASTINGS, at the Sheffield Estate Auction Mart, on Tuesday, May 16, 1899, at Four o’clock for Half-past Four precisely, and subject to Conditions to be then produced, the following valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, namely: —
All that old-established and■ well-frequented Fully-licensed■ FREEHOLD FREE PUBLIC-HOUSE, known as the White Hart Inn, situate at Greenhill, Sheffield, together with the two fields of pasture land and1 stables, cow houses, and other outbuildings belonging thereto, containing altogether six acres or thereabouts, as now in the occupation of Joseph William Camm, on an annual tenancy.
The property is a valuable one, situate in the village of Greenhill, near to Norton, within easy range of Sheffield, and offers one of the few remaining opportunities of securing fully-licensed free houses.
To view, apply on the premises, and for further particulars to the Auctioneers, at their Offices; or to Messrs. Paddock and Son, solicitors, Hanley.
THORESBY-ROAD, near HILLSBOROUGH. TRAiM. ROUTE, WALKT.EY-LANE, SHEFFIELD. Valuable Stone-faced Houses.
rbe Sold by Auction, by Messrs. NICHOLSON, GREAVES, BARBER and HASTINGS, at the Sheffield Estate Auction Mart, 2, High-street, on Tuesday, May 16. 1899. at Four o’clock for Half-past Four precisely, subject to Conditions of the Sheffield Law Society and Special Conditions: —
Lot 1.—SEVEN Six.re-faced, Double Bay-windowed RESIDENCES, with gardens at front, good yards and outbuildings at the back, being Nos. 41, 43, 45, 47. 49, 51 and 53, Thcresby-road, producing an annual rent of £129 7s.
The site is held on lease for 800 years from September, 1890, at an annual ground rent of £12 4s.
Lot 2.—FOUR similar HOUSES, Nos. 55, 57, 59 and 61, Thoresby-road. Rental £73 4s. 8d. Similar lease, with ground rent of £6 12s. lid.
Lot 3.—FOUR similar ■HOUSES, Nos. 48, 50, 52 and 54, Thoresby-road. Rental £73 4s. 3d. Similar lease, with ground rent of £7 2s. Id.
Lot 4.—FOUR similar HOUSES, Nos. 56 , 58. 60 and 62, Thoresby-road. Rental £73 4s. 8d. Similar lease, with ground rent of £6 13s. Id.
The above properties are well let to respectable tenants, and are in an improving district, close to the Hillsborough tram terminus.
Any further particulars may be obtained from the Auctioneers, 2, High-street; or from Pye-Smith and Parker, solicitors, York-street, Sheffield.