Record Description |
Matthew Bell and William Lee, wardens, and John Foord, John Ross Foord, Charles Ross Foord, Thomas Hellyar Foord, and William Wildash Foord, builders and contractors: buildings and premises on the Esplanade and High Street (as shown on plan) listed as follows: tenement in part re-erected and rebuilt (Number 3); tenement newly built (Number 1); the Crown Inn newly built; three tenements on the High Street newly built (Number 4, Number 6, and Number 8); messuage at rear of these tenements in part re-erected; building and stables in part re-erected (Masonic Lodge); together with Crown Yard: for 75 years from Midsummer 1862 at £90 rent per annum plus taxes; repairs; maintenance; insurance; 3 May 1867 (A:parchment, 10 signatures, papered seal; B:parchment, 5 signatures, seals). Endorsement: Surrender of building and stables (as shown on plan): 2 June 1905 (signatures, seals). Related correspondence, 4 October 1866-14 March 1867. Agreement attached to lease: Bridge Wardens and John Ross Foord and others: stopping up of western entry to Crown Yard due to construction of the Bridge Chamber in exchange for additional piece of land added to lease (as shown on plan), new right of way, and new drainage system: 21 April 1882 (signatures, papered seal). Related correspondence, 25 May 1877-28 October 1881, and further undated plan showing old and new drainage system |