Cosgrove - Documents pertaining to Mansel Close

Wolverton Express 19th July 1962

MAJOR the Hon. John Breckinridge Fermor-Hesketh, of Cosgrove Hall, third son of 1st Baron Hesketh. who died on November 8 last, aged 44 years, left estate in Great Britain valued at £754,685 18s. 7d. gross £623,266 0s. 11d. net value. (Duty paid £571,112).

Wolverton Express 17th July 1962

TWO FARMS SOLD FOR £49,700

Manor Farm, Castlethorpe, the home of the Markham family for nearly 50 years, was sold on Saturday at Northampton to Mr. H. M. Stockdale, of Pindon Manor, for £35,000. (The sale was on the instructions of Mrs. Markham, who also offered Cobbs Bush, Cosgrove. This was sold to Mr. Mayo, of Silverstone, for £14,700

Wolverton Express 19th March 1967

RECTORY FARM, COSGROVE

On the main A.508 road mid-way between Yardley Gobion and Old Stratford.

A mortgage was created by Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd and Barclays Bank registered 14th April1967

Letter dated 20th June 1968 re Flat 16 Maycock Close, Cosgrove – possibly the original name for Mansel Close?

Abstract Title of Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd to Freehold Property situate at Cosgrove in the County of Northampton

31st October 1934

As to Lot 2

By conveyance of this date between Henry Sallows Fergusson Alexander formerly of 115 St Vincent St Glasgow Chartered Accountant but then of Dorland House Regent ST in the County of London Gentleman and Stuart Colquhoun Sheppard of Atherton Grange Somerset Road Wimbledon Park County Surrey Gentleman (thereinafter called the Vendors) (1) and Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson of 45 Warrington Crescent Maid Vale County London Bank Clerk (thereinafter called the Purchaser) (2)

Reciting

1.       Seisin of Bernice Ellen Avery Agar at the date of her death next thereinafter recited and that by her Will dated 11 September 1931 said Bernice Ellen Agar (sometimes known as Bernice Ellen Avery Agar) appointed Henry Sallows Fergusson Alexander, William Annesley and Stuart Colquhoun Sheppard to be the Executors and Trustees thereof and after various legacies and bequests devised and bequeathed all her real and personal estate not thereby otherwise disposed of unto her Trustees upon trust for sale as therein mentioned.

2.       Said B E Agar died on 9 October 1931and probate of her said Will with one codicil thereto (not affecting abstracting presents) was granted on 2 April 1932 out of the Principal Probated Registry to said H S F Alexander and S C Sheppard two of the Executors named in the said Will power being reserved to the other Executor

3.       Agreement by Vendors as Personal Representatives and in exercise of statutory power in that behalf conferred upon them for Purchaser for £4250

4.       Vendors had not previously to execution of abstracting Conveyance given or made any Assent or Conveyance in respect of any legal estate in property thereby assured or any part thereof

It was Witnessed

1.       In pursuance of said agreement and in consideration of £4250 then paid etc (receipt etc) the Vendors as Personal Representatives of said B E Agar deceased thereby conveyed unto Purchaser

All that messuage or farmhouse with the farm and other buildings cottages and lands held therewith situate as to the bulk thereof in the Parish of Cosgrove in the County of Northampton but as to certain portions thereof in the respective parishes of Furtho in the said County of Northampton and of Stony Stratford and Wolverton in the County of Buckingham All which said premises were then known as “The Manor Farm” contained altogether 277 acres and 7 poles or thereabouts and were more particularly described in the Schedule thereto and same were delineated on the plan annexed to abstracting conveyance and thereon edged round with the colour pink Together with the following rights namely :-

a)      a right of way over the road or way coloured blue on said plan and leading from the highway to field numbered 136 on said plan

b)      a right of way to pass and repass or with horses carts and motor vehicles over a strip of land approximately 10 feet lying between the point marked A and B on said plan between the fields numbered 126, 132 and 124 on said plan for the purposes of obtaining access to and from the field numbered 124 and the bridge leading out of field 124 to the fields belonging to the Vendors and thereby assured on the South side of the canal

c)       a right to receive from the Artesian well situate on adjoining property known as Cosgrove Hall a supply of water as then enjoyed so long as such supply was continued subject to  the annual payment to the owner for the time being of the said property known as Cosgrove Hall of the sum of £20  for such supply so long as it should be continued

d)      a right in the event of the owner for the time being of Cosgrove Hall desiring to abandon the then Artesian well system of water supplied to Cosgrove Hall, and in the event of the Council of the Administrative County of Northampton failing to exercise the powers given to them by a certain deed dated 5th May 1920 to acquire within one month after the expiration of the period given to the Council got the exercise of their right the said Artesian Well system upon the said terms and conditions as were expressed in the said Conveyance to the said Council for the Administrative County of Northampton

e)      all other rights (if any) which might be vested in Vendors with reference to the supply of water to the property thereby assured

To Hold the same unto Purchaser in fee simple subject to the right of the owner for the time being of the said property known as Cosgrove Hall to enter upon the property thereby assured for the purpose of inspecting maintaining and improving the main pipeline used in connection with the supply of water from the said Artesian Well to the property thereby assured and to the property known as Elms Farm and to any other property which might be supplied  from the said Artesian Well the owner of Cosgrove Hall aforesaid maintain the said main pipeline at his own cost and doing as little damage as possible to the land and premises thereby assured and making good or paying any reasonable compensation in respect of any damage done by him

2.       Covenant by Purchaser for himself and successors in title with Vendors to pay to the owner for the time being of the said property known as Cosgrove Hall said sum of £20 per annum for said supply of water so long as it should be continued and to indemnify Vendors and the estate of said B E A Agar deceased from and against all claims and demands in respect of such payments

3.       Acknowledgement by Vendors of right of Purchaser to production of said Probate of the Will and Codicil of said B E A Agar deceased (possession of which was retained by them) and to delivery of copies thereof

The Schedule before referred to

Ordnance No

Description

Acreage

Furtho Parish

 

 

61

Arable

4.912

Stony Stratford Parish

 

 

65a

Rushes

0.097

Wolverton Parish

 

 

256

Coppice

0.499

Cosgrove Parish

 

 

71

Grass

4.399

82

Garden

0.225

92 part

Farm house and buildings

0.790

88

Cottage and Garden

0.383

89

Ditto

0.289

90

Grass

1.335

91

Ditto

0.840

115

Arable

7.511

116

Ditto

6.826

119 part

Ditto

13.367

126

Ditto

6.348

132

Ditto

26.628

131

Woodland belt

0.561

134

Grass

( 2.424

 

 

( 1.936

 

 

( 3.185

 

 

( 2.384

 

 

( 0.384

135

Meadow

10.577

136

Meadow

6.610

 

 

( 6.348

148

Old Cottage and Buildings

0.402

149

Meadow

6.414

241 part

Arable

10.122

243 part

Grass

7.988

225

Coppice

0.410

257 part

Pond

0.492

258

Grass

( 16.992

 

 

( 0.83

259

Arable

( 0.344

 

 

( 9.081

260

Grass

(4.410

 

 

( 10.277

261

Meadow

( 4.734

 

 

( 36.922

262

Grass

( 13.112

 

 

( 1.784

263

Meadow

( 4.195

 

 

( 23.088

240

Grass

0.152

123 part

Roadway

0.010

124

Grass

( 0.655

 

 

( 9.996

 

 

 

 

Total

277.046

Executed by all parties and attested

Memoranda endorsed of Plots sold

Date of Conveyance

Name of Purchaser

Premises Conveyed

17th October 1938

Albert Tack

Part of Enclosure numbered part 89 having frontage to the Castlethorpe Road of 81 feet or thereabouts

(1 Yardley Road)

Forming part of Enclosure numbered part 119

8th January 1928

Alfred Edward Hitchcock

Plot of land with frontage of 44 feet to the Stony Stratford Road and Cosgrove Road and a depth of 150 feet or thereabouts

9th March 1938

Arthur David Simons

Plot of land having a frontage of 50 feet to the said road and a depth therefrom of 163 feet or thereabouts

15th May 1941

Edward Thomas James Flack

Plot of land having a frontage of 45 feet to the said road and an average depth therefrom of 155 feet or thereabouts

16th November 1942

Said A D Simons

Plot of land having a frontage of 50 feet to the said road and a depth therefrom of 155 feet 6 inches or thereabouts

7th July 1939

Said E T J Flack

Plot of land having a frontage of 45 feet to the said road and a depth therefrom of 155 feet or thereabouts

30th April 1947

Said E T J Flack

Remainder of Field part 119 retaining use of 12 feet right of way to property retained

30th April 1947

Walter Thomas Coles

Plot of land part of field part 119 having a frontage of 49 feet to the said road

28th June 1948

Said W T Coles

Plot of land having a frontage of 18 feet or thereabouts to the said road and a depth therefrom on the East side of 157 feet or thereabouts

[Above plots refer to self builds along Stratford Road from the Dog’s Mouth]

1st November 1934

By Mortgage of this date between said F A A Hewson of 45 Warrington Crescent aforesaid (thereinafter called the Borrower (1) and Ethel Mary Tayler widow Philip Clayton Gambell Auctioneer and John Leslie Coales Merchant all of Newport Pagnell in the County of Buckingham (thereinafter called the Lenders) (2)

Reciting seisin of Borrower and  and agreement by Lenders for advance to him of £3000 out of money belonging to them on joint account

It was Witnessed

1.       In consideration of £3000 paid by the Lenders to Borrower (receipt etc). Borrower covenanted for repayment of capital on 1st May then next and of interest at 4%

2.       For the consideration aforesaid Borrower as Beneficial Owner thereby demised to Lenders All that the last before abstracted property Together with and subject to the rights more particularly to in the last before abstracted Conveyance

To hold unto the Lenders for 3000 years from date of abstracting presents without impeachment of waste subject also to proviso for cesser

3.       Proviso for cesser

4.       Usual Borrowers covenants

5.       Borrower not to lease or accept surrenders of leases under powers given by any statute except with written consent of lenders

6.       Borrower attorned and became tenant at will to Lenders

7.       Interpretation clause

The Schedule before referred to

The Schedule is a copy of the Schedule to the last before abstracted Conveyance

Executed  by the Borrower and attested

29th September 1937

By receipt endorsed on last before abstracted Mortgage said E M Tayler said P C Gambell and said J L Coales acknowledged receipt on this date of all principal interest and costs secured by said mortgage payment having been made by said F A A Hewson

Signed by Lenders and attested

30th June 1950

By official search so dated and numbered 363317/50 against Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson Ethel Mary Tayler Philip Clayton Gambell and John Leslie Coales revealing no subsisting entries

4th July 1950

By Conveyance so dated made between Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson formerly of 45 Warrington Crescent Maida Vale in the County of London but then of “Dinsdale” Rosebery Avenue Linslade in the County of Buckingham Bank Official (thereinafter called the Vendor)(1) and the Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh or Easton Neston Towcester in the County of Northampton (Purchaser)(2)

Reciting seisin of Vendor of the property thereinafter described subject as thereinafter mentioned and agreement for sale at the price of £15000

It was Witnessed in pursuance of said agreement and in consideration of £15000 paid etc (receipt etc) as follows

1.       The Vendor as Beneficial Owner (except as thereinafter provided in Clause 2) thereby conveyed unto the Purchaser

All that Farm messuage dwellinghouse land and premises known as “The Manor Farm” Cosgrove in the County of Northampton a small portion thereof being in the County of Buckingham containing in the whole 283.007 acres or thereabouts but as to Ordnance Survey no 240 to the extent only of the Vendor’s interest (if any) therein as the same was then in the occupation of Richard Holt Maycock as Tenant thereof and were more particularly described in the First Schedule thereto and delineated for the purpose of identification and not of limitation on the plan annexed thereto and thereon edged with the colour red together with the rights privileges and easements specified in the Second Schedule thereto and together also with the benefit of the Tenancy Agreement mentioned in the Third Schedule thereto Subject Nevertheless to the said Tenancy Agreement mentioned in the Third Schedule thereto and subject also to the rights matters and things mentioned in the Fourth Schedule thereto

To Hold the same unto the Purchaser subject as aforesaid in fee simple

2.       Proviso that the Covenants implied therein by virtue of Section 76 of the Law of Property Act 1925 should not extend to the small parcel of land situate in the Parish of Cosgrove numbered 240 of the said plan and containing 0.152 acres or thereabouts [the “island” between the Grand Union Canal and the Buckingham Arm]

3.       a) The Vendor as Beneficial Owner thereby assigned unto the Purchaser

All that Right to receive any payment made under part VI of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 in respect of the interest sold

To hold the same unto the Purchaser absolutely the Purchaser agreeing to pay all expenses in connection with or incidental to the making or establishing of any claim in respect of the said right

b) Covenant by the Vendor with the Purchaser that the Vendor would from time to time at the request and cost of the Purchaser supply to the Purchaser such information as might be in the possession or power of the Vendor as the Purchaser might reasonably require for the purpose of making or dealing with any objection application or proceeding under the Town and Country Planning Act 1947

4. Acknowledgement by the Vendor of the right of the Purchaser to production of the documents of the title specified in the Fifth Schedule thereto and to delivery of copies thereof and undertaking with the Purchaser for the safe custody of the same.

The Schedule before referred to

No on OS map 1900 edition

Description

Acreage

Furtho Parish

 

 

61

Arable

4.912

Stony Stratford Parish

 

 

65a

Rushes

0.097

Wolverton Parish

 

 

256

Coppice

0.499

Cosgrove Parish

 

 

71

Grass

4.399

82

Garden

0.225

92 part

Farm house and buildings

0.790

88

Cottage and Garden

0.383

89

Ditto

0.289

90

Grass

1.335

91

Ditto

0.840

115

Arable

7.511

116

Ditto

6.826

119 part

Ditto

13.367

126

Ditto

6.348

132

Ditto

26.628

131

Woodland belt

0.561

134

Grass

( 2.424

 

 

( 1.936

 

 

( 3.185

 

 

( 2.384

 

 

( 0.384

135

Meadow

10.577

136

Meadow

6.610

 

 

( 6.348

148

Old Cottage and Buildings

0.402

149

Meadow

6.199

149a

Marsh

0.215

241 part

Arable

10.122

243

Grass

7.988

245

Coppice

0.410

257 part

Pond

0.492

258

Grass

( 16.992

 

 

( 0.83

259

Arable

( 0.344

 

 

( 9.081

260

Grass

(4.410

 

 

( 10.277

261

Meadow

( 4.734

 

 

( 36.922

262

Grass

( 13.112

 

 

( 1.784

263

Meadow

( 4.195

 

 

( 23.088

240

Grass

0.152

123 part

Roadway

0.010

124

Grass

( 0.655

 

 

( 9.996

 

 

 

 

Total

263.007

The Second Schedule above referred to

Rights Easements and privileges included in the Conveyance thereby made

1.       a right of way over the road or way shown on the said plan annexed hereto as passing from the highway to the field numbered 136 on the said plan over the pieces of land numbered respectively Part 128, 127 and 137 on the said plan which said road or way is coloured Blue on the said plan annexed hereto

2.       the right to pass and repass on foot or with horses carts and motor vehicles over a strip of land approximately 10 feet wide between the points marked A and B on the said plan between the fields numbered 126, 132 and 124 on the said plan for the purpose of obtaining access to and from the Field number 124 and the bridge leading out of Field number 124 to the fields belonging to the Vendor and hereby assured on the South side of the canal

3.       All rights (if any) which may be vested in the Vendor with reference to the supply of water to the property hereby assured

4.       The benefit of the exception and reservation unto the Vendor in fee simple (contained in a conveyance made 17 October 1938 between the Vendor of the one part and Albert Tack of the other part) of the right at any time thereafter to erect or suffer to be erected any building or other erection then standing or thereafter to be erected  on any part of the adjoining land retained by the Vendor (adjoining the land adjoining the land conveyed to the said Albert Tack hatched with the colour Green on the said plan) in such a manner as to obstruct or interfere  with the passage of light or air to any building which was or might be erected  upon the said land conveyed to the said Albert Tack and any privilege in respect of light and air then enjoyed over the adjoining land retained by the Vendor in respect in respect of the land thereby conveyed to the said Albert Tack should be deemed to be so enjoyed  by the licence or consent of the Vendor and not as of right but no money payment should be made or asked for in connection with such privilege and together with the benefit of the exception and reservation (contained in said Conveyance of 17th October 1938) unto the Vendor in fee simple of the full and free right of light and air through the windows or openings in any buildings then standing on the adjoining land retained by the Vendor and also the right of user of all existing drains sumps and sewers in or under the property thereby conveyed to the said Albert Tack for the benefit of any existing or future buildings on the adjoining land retained by the Vendor and together also with the benefit of the covenant on the part of the said Albert Tack with the Vendor contained in said Conveyance of 17th October 1938 (so far as it affects the property hereby assured) that the said Albert Tack would at all times keep all sides of the property thereby conveyed well and sufficiently fenced or walled and should forthwith erect and ever thereafter maintain fences or walls along such parts of the boundaries as were not already fenced or walled and together also with the benefit of a further covenant (so far as it affects the property hereby assured) by the said Albert Tack with the Vendor contained in the said conveyance of 17th October 1938 that the said Albert Tack would not interfere with any existing drains sumps or sewers in or under the property thereby conveyed and would make good any damage occasioned to the same by himself his agents tenants or servants but such covenant should not prevent the said Albert Tack from connecting to or having the joint use of any existing drains sumps or sewers subject to the said Albert Tack doing no damage to nor overloading the same thereby

5.       The benefits of the rights reserved unto the Vendor and his successors in Title by a Conveyance made 30th April 1947 between the Vendor of the one part and Edward Thomas James Flack of the other part and a Deed of Grant supplemental to such Conveyance made 3rd July 1950 between the Vendor of the one part and Edward Thomas James Flack of the other part namely :-

i)         The right of way in fee simple for all purposes over the piece of land 12 feet in width coloured Green on the said Plan annexed hereto and between the points marked  C D and E on the said plan annexed hereto so as to give access to and from the property hereby conveyed on the North side of the pieces of field number 119edged with the colour Blue and coloured Green on the said plan and thereby conveyed to the said Edward James Flack

ii)        a) A right for the Vendor or for the said Edward James Flack (should either so desire) to erect a fence along each side of the said land coloured Green on the said plan and in each fence a gate giving access to and opening into the land edged with the colour Blue on the said Plan an

b) a corresponding obligation on the party erecting such fences and gates as aforesaid to maintain and keep the same in good repair

iii)       If before such fences and gates were erected as aforesaid any dispute should arise as to     the use of the said right of way the said Edward Thomas James Flack or his successors in title define the limits of the said right of way by erecting and thereafter maintaining along the sides thereof a line of posts 50 feet apart and if the said Edward Thomas James Flack should fail to erect and maintain such line of posts as aforesaid The Vendor and his successors in title should not be liable for any loss or damage caused to the property of the said Edward Thomas James Flack by reason of trespass by the Vendor or his tenant or any other person authorised by him to use the said right of way

iv)        The right in fee simple to lay pipes drains and electric cables under the land coloured Green and between the points marked C D and E on the said plan for the service of the said property hereby conveyed  situate on the Northerly side of the pieces of land thereby conveyed to the said Edward Thomas James Flack edged with the colour Blue and coloured Green on the said plan Subject to the declaration contained in the said Deed of Grant of 3rd July 1950 that insofar as such rights granted or limited an estate or interest to take effect in possession or enjoyment at a future time they should be exercisable only until the expiration of twenty years from the date of death of the last survivor of all the lineal descendants of His Late Majesty King George V who were living on 30 April 1947 and that provided the said rights were exercised within the period aforesaid they should from the date of such exercise thereafter be rights in fee simple

The Third Schedule above referred to

Particulars of the Tenancy Agreement under which the Property is held

The property hereby conveyed is so conveyed subject to and with the benefit of an Agreement made 2nd June 1943 between the Vendor of the one part and Richard Holt Maycock of the other part at the present yearly rental of £400 on a Michaelmas tenancy Subject to such amendments as may appear from the endorsements marked A B and D on the said Agreement and so far as the same may be affected by three Memoranda endorsed on the said Agreement date respectively 19th April 1945, 19th June 1947 and 5th October 1948 Provided Nevertheless that the Purchaser shall observe an oral agreement made by the Vendor and the said Richard Holt Maycock whereby it was agreed that the pumping plant should become the property of the said Richard Holt Maycock subject to the said Richard Holt Maycock making the well top safe if he removed the pump

The Fourth Schedule above referred to

Rights Matters and Things to which the property hereby conveyed is subject

1.       Wayleaves for the electric light poles cables and fittings as at present erected and installed on the property

2.       The right of the owner for the time being of the adjoining property known as Cosgrove Hall to enter upon the property hereby assured for the purpose of inspecting maintaining and repairing and improving the main pipe line used in connection with the supply of water from the said Artesian well any property which may be supplied from the said Artesian well the owner of Cosgrove Hall aforesaid maintaining the said main pipe line at his own cost and doing as little damage as possible to the land an premises hereby assured and making good or paying reasonable compensation in respect of any damage done by him

3.       The property hereby conveyed is also conveyed subject to all quit chief and other rents Land Tax and outgoings and to all other rights of way water light and drainage and all easements or quasi-easements of a continuous nature affecting the same and to all rights of adjacent owners and any subsisting liability for repairs of roads streets ways passages sewers drains fences walls or other like matters and subject also to the said Tenancy Agreement referred to in the Third Schedule hereto and all allowances to and claims to compensation and other rights of the said Richard Holt Maycock

The Fourth Schedule above referred to

Documents of Title retained by Vendor

1896 November 30th  Mortgage Harry Grant Thorold (1)
Alexander William Thorold Grant Thorold (2)
Mary Clark (3)
1919 November 25th Reconveyance James Jeffery Clark and Percy Irwin Clark (1)
Harry Grant Thorold (2)
1920 May 15th Conveyance Harry Grant Thorold (1)
Bernice Ellen Avery Agar (2)
1934 October 31st  Conveyance Henry Sallows Fergusson Alexander and
Stuart Colquhoun Sheppard (1)
Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson (2)
1934 November 1st  Mortgage Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson (1)
Ethel Mary Taylor, Phillip Clayton Gambell and
John Leslie Coales (2)
1937 September 29th   Statutory Receipt signed by the said Ethel Mary Taylor, Phillip Clayton
Gambell and John Leslie Coales

Duly Executed by the Vendor and Attested

Memoranda endorsed thereon as follows:

1)      3rd September 1953 by Conveyance so dated made between the within named The Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh of the one part and the Rural District Council of Towcester of the other part OS Nos 71 and 82 comprising 4.654 acres were conveyed to the Rural District Council of Towcester in fee simple and their right to the production of the within written deed was acknowledged and an undertaking given for its safe custody

2)      12th May 1955 by Conveyance of this date the within named Dowager Lady Hesketh assigned to Laurance Victor Wood in fee simple a piece of land comprising 8400 square feet or thereabouts situate in the Parish of Cosgrove in the County of Northampton having a frontage of 60 feet or thereabouts to the main road and a depth therefrom of 100 feet or thereabouts being part of Parcel No 90 on the OS Mao (1900 Edition) for the said Parish and the Purchaser Covenanted to erect and maintain fences on the Southern Eastern and Western Boundaries of the land The said Dowager Lady Hesketh acknowledged the right of the Purchaser to production of this Conveyance and to delivery of copies thereof and undertook for the safe custody of the same

As to the Whole

25th May 1942          By will so dated the Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh late of Easton Neston Towcester in the County of Northampton appointed H F (Towcester) Ltd to be the Executor and Trustee thereof

18th July 1955          By Codicil so dated the said Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh revoked the appointment of H F (Towcester) Ltd and thereby appointed her son The Hon. John Brekinridge Fermor-Hesketh her sons in law Sir Edmund Villiers Minshill Stockdale of Hoddington House Upton Grey near Basingstoke Hants Knight Bachelor and Arnold Derek Arthur Lawson of Passenham Manor Passenham in the County of Northampton Solicitor to be the Executors thereof

4th March 1956         The said Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh died on this date

22nd May 1956         Probate of the said will of the Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh was on this day granted to the said the Hon J B Fermor-Hesketh, Sir E V M Stockdale, KB, A D A Lawson and J S Budge out of the Oxford District Probate Registry

6th April 1958           By Asset so dated the said the Hon J B Fermor-Hesketh, Sir E V M Stockdale, KB, A D A Lawson and J S Budge as Personal Representatives of the Right Honourable Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh whose Will death and Probate as before abstracted did thereby

1)      As Personal Representatives of said Testatrix assent to the Vesting in the said The Hon. John Brekinridge Fermor-Hesketh of

All the property particulars whereof were specified in the Schedule thereto

For all the estate and interest of the Testatrix at the time of her death subject to all (if any) subsisting charges and easements

2)      Declared that they had not previously thereto given or made any Assent or Conveyance in respect of any legal estate in the premises or any part thereof

3)      Acknowledged the right of the said the Hon J B Fermor-Hesketh to production and delivery of copies of the said Probate and to delivery of copies thereof

The First Schedule above Referred to

Secondly all that Farm messuage dwellinghouse land and premises known as Manor Farm Cosgrove in the County of Northampton a small portion thereof being in the County of Bucks containing in the whole 277.998 acres or thereabouts but as to Ordnance Survey No 240 to the extent only of the Vendors interest (if any) therein and which said premises are more particularly described hereunder and are also for the purposes of identification only more particularly delineated on the said plan and thereon coloured Green

No on Ordnance Survey Plan Description Acreage
Cosgrove Parish 92 part  Farm house and Buildings 0.790
90 Grass    1.142
91 Grass 0.840
Doctors Piece 101 0.255

20th October 1960    By Will so dated The Hon. John Brekinridge Fermor-Hesketh appointed his wife Joan Isabel Fermor-Hesketh, John Stuart Budge of Towcester aforesaid Solicitor and Joseph Stanley Weyman of 35 Old Jewry in the City of London Chartered Accountant to be the Executors and Trustees thereof

8th November 1961   The said the Hon J B Fermor-Hesketh died on this date

28th February 1962   The probate of the said Will of the said the Hon J B Fermor-Hesketh with six codicils annexed thereto (not affecting the appointment of Executors) was on this date granted to to the said Joan Isabel Fermor-Hesketh John Stuart Budge and Joseph Stanley Weyman out of the Oxford District Probate Registry

3rd September 1966  Joan Isabelle (sic) Fermor-Hesketh married Michael Frederick Laud Robinson

Probate Engrossment

includes eight notes from 1967/68 including the following relating to Cosgrove:

5th April 1967                 By a conveyance so dated the within named Executors conveyed to Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd first all the Manor of Cosgrove and the Manor House known as Cosgrove Hall containing 40.09 acres. Secondly the premises known as Manor Farm Cosgrove containing 267.998 acres and thirdly the premises known as Rectory Farm Cosgrove having an area of 110.150 or thereabouts for an estate in fee simple and the Purchaser’s right to production of the within written Grant was thereby acknowledged

11th September 1967      By a conveyance so dated the within named Executors conveyed to Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd the properties known as 9 7 13 The Green Cosgrove and this Grant was thereby acknowledged to be produced

5th April 1967                 By a conveyance of this date made between Joan Isabel Robinson of Cosgrove Hall Cosgrove Northampton Married Woman and said J S Budge and J S Weyman Vendors (1) and Mackenzie Hill Cosgrove Ltd whose registered office was at 4 Throgmorton Avenue EC2 Purchasers (2)

Reciting 1) Before Abstracted Will death and Probate of said J B Fermor-Hesketh (Testator)

2)      Seisin of Testator at his death

3)      Agreement for Sale

4)      The Vendors had not given or made any Assent or Conveyance of the legal estate

It was witnessed

1)      In pursuance of said agreement and in consideration of £107.000 paid etc (receipt etc) Vendors as personal representatives of Testator conveyed unto Purchaser

All that property described in the first Schedule thereto

To Hold unto Purchaser in fee simple subject to and with benefit of matters referred to in Second Schedule thereto

2)      Covenant by Purchaser for itself and its successors in title by way of indemnity as to the covenants referred to in the Second Schedule so far as still subsisting and capable of taking effect

3)      Acknowledgement by Vendors of Purchasers right to production of documents in Third Schedule

The First Schedule above referred to

First of all that the Manor or reputed Manor of Cosgrove in the County of Northampton and the rights and privileges and emoluments thereto belonging and the messuage or Mansion House with the stabling garage and outbuildings store house cottages Pleasure Grounds Park and land belonging thereto ort held therewith situate in the Parish of Cosgrove in the County of Northampton and known as Cosgrove Hall which said premises contain 40.094 acres of thereabouts as the same are more particularly described hereunder and are for the purpose of identification only more particularly delineated on the plan annexed hereto and thereon coloured Pink

No on Ordnance Survey Plan Description  Acreage
103  Church Walk  0.563
105  Kitchen Garden  0.911
106 Hall and Grounds  0.339
107 Premises 1.535
108 4 cottages  5 7 9 & 11Stratford Rd 0.355    Whalleys
110 Entrance Lodge 15 Stratford Road 0.247
122  Hall Plantation 13.959
123 Park 17.683
123a Hard Tennis Court  0.513
133 Woodland   3.135
232  Woodland Belt    0.854
    40.094 acres total

Secondly all that Farm messuage dwellinghouse land and premises known as Manor Farm Cosgrove in the County of Northampton a small portion thereof being in the County of Buckingham containing in the whole 267.998 acres or thereabouts but as to Ordnance Survey no 240 to the extent only of the Vendor’s interest (if any) therein and which said premises are more particularly described hereunder and are also for the purposes of identification only more particularly delineated on the said Plan and thereon edged Green

No on Ordnance Survey Plan Description
Acreage
61  Arable 4.912    Furtho Parish
1 Rushes 0.097    Wolverton Parish
256 Coppice    0.499    Cosgrove Parish
92 part Farmhouse and Buildings 0.790
90 part Grass   1.142
91 Rickyard 0.840
115 Arable  7.511
116 Arable 6.826
126 Arable  6.348
132 Arable 26.628
131 Woodland Belt   0.561
134 Grass 10.559
135 Meadow      11.160
136 Meadow 12.958
148 Old Cottage and Buildings 0.203
149 Meadow   6.199
149a Marsh 0.215
241 Arable    10.122
243 Grass  7.988
245 Coppice 0.410
257 part Pond     0.492
258 Grass  17.075
259 Arable  9.425
260 Grass 14.687
261 Meadow  41.656
262   Grass 14.896
263  Meadow   27.283
240 Grass      0.152
123 part  Roadway  0.010
124  Grass  16.546
101 part   0.255
231  Doctors Piece     9.552
    267.998 Total
                                                                  

Thirdly all those pieces or parcel of land known as Rectory Farm which are situate in the Parishes of Cosgrove and Furtho in the County of Northampton having an area of 110.150 acres or thereabouts together with the cottage and Farm buildings thereon which are more particularly described hereunder and which said premises are for the purposes of identification only more particularly delineated on the said Plan and thereon coloured Blue

No on Ordnance Survey Plan Description Acreage
44 part Homestead and Buildings 0.523    Furtho Parish   
45 Pasture  8.129    Furtho Parish
46 Pasture 9.793    Furtho Parish
47 Pasture   9.483    Furtho Parish
57 Pasture  9.337    Furtho Parish
58    Pasture      19.876  Furtho Parish
60 Pasture 6.173    Furtho Parish
75 part Homestead and Buildings   0.160    Cosgrove Parish
76  Pasture 27.376  Cosgrove Parish
78 Pasture   10.842  Cosgrove Parish
94 Pasture  8.468    Cosgrove Parish
    110.150 Total
                        

The Second Schedule before referred to

As to the property firstly described in the First Schedule hereto

1.Subject to and with the benefit of supply of drinking water from the pump and well situate on the premises known as “The Little Manor” Cosgrove aforesaid and other ancillary rights which said rights which said rights were granted by a conveyance made 3rd December 1928 between Bernice Ellen Avery Agar of the one part and George Harold Winterbottom of the other part

2. With the benefit of the Covenants by the said George Harold Winterbottom and the said Bernice Ellen Avery Agar respectively as to the drainage system serving  the property firstly described in the said First Schedule and “Little Manor” Cosgrove aforesaid contained or referred to in the said Conveyance made 3rd December 1928 so far as the said Covenants are still subsisting and capable of being enforce

3. Subject to and with the benefit of an Agreement made 28th June 1913 between the Rev Henry Newington Clarke Hewson (1) and Charles Smith Magee and Harry Flude (2)  and Harry Grant Thorold (3) for the laying of a pipeline across Ordnance Survey  no 231 but subject as varied by an acknowledgement dated 31st July 1956 and made between the Testator and others of the one part and the Testator of the other part

4. Subject to the rights granted to the Council of the Administrative Council of Northampton (so far as the same are still subsisting and capable of being enforced) and contained in a Conveyance made 5th May 1920 between the said Harry Grant Thorold of the one part and the said Council of the other part for the supply of water from the Artesian Well situate on the property firstly described in the said First Schedule to the premises known as Elms Farm Cosgrove aforesaid upon payment by the said Council of the sum of £20 per annum payable upon 31st December in each year and to the covenants and provisos on the part of said Harry Grant Thorold relating thereto and contained in the said Conveyance

5. Subject to and with the benefit of an Agreement made 14th June 1920 between the said Bernice Ellen Avery Agar of the one part and Charles Arthur Weydeylin (sic) of the other part so far as the said Agreement is still subsisting and capable of being enforced

6. Subject to the right of the owner and occupier for the time being of Ordnance Survey Nos 124, 126 and 132 (forming part of the property thirdly described in the said First Schedule) to pass on foot or with horses carts or motor vehicles over a strip of land approximately 10 feet wide between the points marked A and B shown on the plan to the said Conveyance of 3rd December 1928 and for the purpose of of obtaining access to and from Ordnance Survey No 124  and the bridge leading out of Ordnance Survey No 124 the fields forming part of the property thirdly described in the said First Schedule on the South side of the Grand Union Canal in so far as the same are still subsisting and capable of having effect as to Ordnance Survey 7 subject to the Covenants agreement declaration and provisions contained in the said  Conveyance of 3rd December 1928 so far as the same are still subsisting and capable of taking effect

As to Ordnance Survey Nos part 101 and No 231 forming part of the property secondly described in the First Schedule

1.  Subject to the exception and reservation in favour of the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh contained in a Conveyance made 5th April 1951 between the Rev John Simmonds Benson (1) the Church Commissioners for England (2) Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson (3) and the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh (4)
2. Subject to the redemption annuity and all other duties and payments ecclesiastical or civil charged upon or payable thereout and to all rights of way and water and other easements if any affecting the same
3.  Subject to the said Agreement of 28th June 1913
4. Subject to and with the benefit of the covenants on the part of the said Rev John Simmonds Benson but subject to the covenants on the part of the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh more particularly referred to in the said Conveyance of 5th April 1951
5. Subject to a Deed of Grant dated 24th January 1955 made between the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh and the East Midland Gas Board of the other part

 As to the remainder of the property secondly described in the said First Schedule

1. Subject to and with the benefit of  the rights privileges and easements specified in the Second Schedule of a Conveyance  made 4th July 1950 made between Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson of the one part and the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh of the other part
2.  Subject to the rights matters and things mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to the said Conveyance of 4th July 1951 in so far as the same are still subsisting and capable of having effect
3. Subject to a Deed of Grant made 12th February 1958 between Edward James Flack of the one part and Testator and Others of the other part
4. Subject to and with the benefit of the rights covenants privileges easements and provisos contained in a Conveyance made 22nd December 1965 between the Vendors of the one part and UK Oil Pipe Lines Ltd of the other part

As to the  property thirdly described in the said First Schedule except the north eastern corner of Ordnance Survey No 47 containing 2.244 acres or thereabouts            

1. Subject to the exceptions and reservations unto the said Rev John Simmonds Benson contained in a Conveyance dated 17th March 1953 made between the said John Simmonds Benson (1) the Church Commissioners for England (2) Francis Arthur Alexander Hewson (3) The Official Trustees of Charity Lands (4) the said John Simmonds Benson and others (5) and the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh (6)
2. Subject to the redemption annuity or other duties and payments ecclesiastical or civil charged upon or payable throughout and to all rights of way and water and other easements if any affecting the same

As to the whole of the property thirdly described      

1, Subject to the covenant on the part of the said the Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh contained in said conveyance of 17th March 1953
2. Subject to and with the benefit of a Deed of Grant  made 1st March 1957 between Alice Gertrude Markham and Others (1) Lloyds Bank Ltd (20 and the Testator and Others (3)
3. Subject to and with the benefit of the rights covenants privileges easements and provisos contained in the said Conveyance of 22 December 1965
    

The Third Schedule referred to      

Probate of the Will of the Testator granted out of the Oxford District Probate Registry 28th February 1962

Assent by the Testator dated 6th April 1958 to himself

Assent dated 6th April 1958 by the Personal Representatives of the said Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh to the Testator

Acknowledgement dated 16th July 1958 by the Personal Representatives of the said Right Hon Florence Louise Dowager Baroness Hesketh to the Testator of the Conveyance of 21 November 1951

Executed by the Vendors and Attested

Sealed by the Purchaser in the presence of a Director and the Secretary

Memoranda Endorsed

1. 5th April 1967 By a Conveyance so dated the within named Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd conveyed to Robert Henry Tandy for an estate in fee simple all the premises thirdly described in the First Schedule of the within written Conveyance together with the fields numbered 61, 115 and 116 being part of the premises secondly described in the said First Schedule and acknowledged the said Purchaser’s right to production of this Deed
2.   5th April 1957 by a legal charge so dated the within named Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd charged by way of legal mortgage to secure the payment to the within named Joan Isabel Robinson John Stuart Bridge and Joseph Stanley Weyman of the principal money interest and other money referred to in the said Legal Charge All the premises firstly and secondly described in the within written Conveyance with the exception of fields numbered 61, 115 and 116 (added in pencil and 90, 91 and 92)
3.

By a conveyance dated 10th October 1967 and made between the within named Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd of the one part and Ralph Bruce Verney and Others of the other part of the property secondly described in the First Schedule to the within written Conveyance namely

OS Nos Wolverton1, Cosgrove 126, 132, 131, 134, 135, 136, 148, 149, 149a, 240, 241, 243, 245, part 257, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263 were conveyed to the said Ralph Bruce Verney and Others (The Trustees of the Charity known as Dr Radcliffe’s Trust) in fee simple and the said Conveyance contained a covenant as to acknowledgement for production and undertaking for safe custody of the within written conveyance

4. By a Deed of Grant dated 10th October 1967 and made between the within named Mackenzie Hill (Cosgrove) Ltd of the one part John Richard Plincke of the second part and and Ralph Bruce Verney and Others of the third part the parties of the second part granted to the said Ralph Bruce Verney and Others (The Trustees of the Charity known as Dr Radcliffe’s Trust) in fee simple a right of way across OS Nos 133, 124, part 123, and part 243 and the said Deed contains an acknowledgement for production and undertaking for safe custody of the within written conveyance

      

By 1968 the outline of Mansel Close and associated buildings was planned and plots sold to various purchasers as outlined below. These do not necessarily coincide with current house numbers    

Plot Number

Name of Purchaser

Date

1

Ian Fowlds and Patricia Fowlds

8 July 1968

2

 

 

3

John Edgcumbe Fletcher and Samantha Fletcher

25 June 1968

4

Michael Henry Keele

16 May 1968

5

James Bertram Glover and Eleanor Florence Glover

10 July 1968

6

David How Abbott

4 April 1968

7

Maurice Arbon and Phyllis Margaret Arbon

22 February 1968

8

David John Collins10 May 1968

10 May 1968

9

Roger Edward Bidgood

12 January 1968

10

illegible

… January 1968

11

Illegible and Olive Burwood

11 July 1968

12

George Roy Stiven and Greta Ileith Stiven

21 March 1968

13

Robert John Howe

4 March 1968

14

Clifford John Woods and Maureen Hilda Woods

27 March 1968

15

Paul Anthony Gee Balderstone and Judith Elizabeth Watson

1 July 1968

16

Trevor Anthony Hudson and Mavis Hudson

5 July 1968

17

 

 

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