Roydon Hall for sale (1835)

Post date: Apr 02, 2012 8:38:3 PM

Extract from Kentish GazettAe, 23 June 1835:

VALUABLE FREEHOLD LANDED ESTATES, 

With Mansion, Manors, Park,and Farms,

Situate in the Parishes of 

EAST PECKHAM, WATERINGBURY, and NETTLESTED, 

In the finest part of the County of Kent; 

Containing about 546 Acres capital, Arable, Meadow, Pasture, Hop Grounds, and Wood Land, lying within a ring fence.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, 

By Mr. HOGGART, At the Mart, London, FRIDAY, July 17, Twelve o'clock, One Lot, without reserve, by direction of the Trustees of the late Sir Wm. Jarvis Twysden, Bart, and pursuant to his will,

ROYDON HALL,

for many years tbe residence of the late Sir W. J. Twysden, with the Manors of Eastmere, Albans, and Lomewood, extending over a large tract of land, rights of free Warren, heriots, quit rents. &c.; a finely timbered Park, capital Farms, Farm Houses, and Buildings, situate the Parishes of EAST PECKHAM, WATERINGBURY, and NETTLESTED, the most fertile part of the County of Kent, and consisting the MANSION, which is beautifully placed within the Park, commanding the most magnificent views of the country, contains nine bedchambers, six secondary chambers, a spacious entrance hall, dining and drawing rooms of good dimensions, morning room, picture gallery, 38 feet in length; housekeeper and steward's rooms, servants' offices of every description, with excellent cellaring; a court yard, with stall stabling for seven horses, coach houses, cart-horse stable, and various farm buildings; a capital kitchen garden, shrubberies, walks, and pleasure grounds, of nearly five acres; a Gamekeeper's Cottage, with approach to the Mansion ; Meadow Lands, and about 174 Acres of thriving Wood Land, at present in hand; a Cottage Residence, a short distance from the Mansion, with about 13 Acres of Land, in the occupation of F. Twysden, Esq. The Warren let to William Beadle; Wateringbury Farm, with 161 Acres of Land, let to Mr. Ellis, on lease, at rental of £383 14s. per annum ; the Home Farm, with 170 Acres of Land, forming part of the Park, let to Mr. Hatch, at a rental of £275 per annum ; and lands let to Mr. Henham and others. The whole this beautiful Estate contains 545 a. 3r. 28p. of fine rich Arable, Meadow, Pasture, Hop Grounds, and Wood Land, lying well together in a ring fence, and is of the value of upwards of £1,100 per annum. There is also a stone quarry on the Estate, which yields about £50 per annum.

May be viewed by tickets, which with particulars, may be had Mr. Hoggart, 62, Old Broad-street, Royal Exchange particulars also of John Dudlow, Esq. Town Malling; of Messrs. Hastings and Sheringham, No. 3, Harpur-street, Red Lion- square ; at the Bell lnn, Maidstone; Rose and Crown, Tonbridge;Kentish Hotel, TonbridgeWells; Crown, Rochester; Fountain, Canterbury; and at the Auction Mart, London.