Catalogue description Conveyance (photocopy) from Theodore Harris of Leighton Buzzard, banker, James Pettit of...

Conveyance (photocopy) from Theodore Harris of Leighton Buzzard, banker, James Pettit of the same, wine merchant, and Samuel Taverner of Linslade, grocer, to Frederick Spahn of Leighton Buzzard, watchmaker, for £71, of:

(a) two plots of land lying together situate at Leighton Buzzard containing 689 sq. yards with a frontage of 60 ft towards Ashwell Street ('a new street') and a frontage of 84 ft towards Edward Street ('another new street'), bounded on the N by Ashwell Street, E by other land sold to Frederick Spahn, S by land sold to James Parkinson, and on the W by Edward Street, together with rights of way over the new streets, and right to use the newly made sewer in Ashwell St.

Includes: declaration by FS forbidding any widow of his the right to dower out of the property; covenant to produce scheduled title deeds of 18 December 1866 (John Swinstead to the vendors) and 28 January 1867 (the Rev. Truman Tanqueray, John Thomas Green and Thomas Hagger to the vendors); restrictive covenants concerning the value of any buildings which are built on the land, the position of the building/s relative to the new streets, the height of any wall or fence, roofing material (thatch not permitted); proportional maintenance payments for the repair of Edward Street and Ashwell Street together with the footway.

Acc. 7856