Wateringbury Place for sale (1821)

Post date: Mar 16, 2018 8:0:48 PM

Extract from Morning Chronicle - Wednesday 07 November 1821

Mansion House, Manor, Park, Villa Residences, and valuable Freehold Estates, at Wateringbury and Mereworth, Kent.- By Messrs. DRIVER,at the Auction Mart, on Thursday, the 29th instant, at twelve,

In sundry Lots, unless an acceptable offer should be previously made for the whole Estate.

A Very valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, consisting of the MANORS of WATERINGBURY and FOWKES, with a capital Mansion House, small park and pleasure ground, in the occupation of Walter Jones, Esq.; sundry desirable Residences, in the occupation of the Rev. Mr. Earle, Mr. Hormer and Mr. Stone; valuable Woods, in hand; and several excellent Farms, in the occupation of Messrs. Stone, Brattle, Stretton, Banfield and others; with a good proportion of most valuable Filbert and other Orchards and Hop Plantations, and the remainder consisting of very rich Arable and Meadow Land, the whole containing about SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY ACRES, most delightfully situate in the Garden of Kent, adjoining the turnpike road leading from Tonbridge to Maidstone, about nine miles from the former, and five from the latter, in a most respectable neighbourbood of numerous Gentlemen's seats, and only 32 miles from London, and producing an annual rental of Seventeen Hundred Pounds.

Printed specifications with engraved plans, may be had upon application at the Bell, Maidstone; Crown Inns, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks, Castle, Hastings; Bull, Rochester; Lion, Farningham; and of Messrsi Dynely and Gatty, solicitors, Gray's Inn, at the Auction Mart, near the Bank of England; and of Messrs. Driver, surveyors and land agents, 13, New Bridgestreet, Blackfriars.