AUCTION
PARTICULARS
Friday 28th September
1917
BYLAUGH PARK ESTATE
of over
8,150 ACRES
The estate is intersected
by the RIVER WENSUM for a length of 51/2 miles and affords some
TROUT AND EXCELLENT COARSE
FISHING & WILDFOWL SHOOTNG.
LOT 1 BYLAUGH HALL
at an upset of £17,500
with 736 acres completely enclosed on three sides by a park wall and diversified
by pleasant undulations, matured park timber, extensive woods and woodland
belts, massed banks of rhodendrons and swards of bracken, heather and gorse.
Approach to the Mansion is
by Three Carriage Drives, each with a Lodge and Carriage Gates at the entrances,
and these drives wind through the expanse of the Park and thread the woods
and massed rhododendrons until they converge on the plateau on which the
mansion rests, and so through the balustraded forecourt to the entrance
door.
The Mansion
A STONE-BUILT PILE
architecturaly complete on
each front erected from the designs of the late Sir Charles Barry in the
style of the domestic Elizabethan Period with a central tower, is most
compactly planned. It is entered through the
ENTRANCE HALL
24ft by 16ft 6in
with fireplace and with Cloak
Room at one side, and it runs in two short flights of broad steps through
two pairs of folding doors to
THE SALOON
35ft by 28ft
the centre portion of which
has a series of pilasters with Corinthian capitals supporting a heavy bracketted
cornice from which the ribbed and glazed panel curved roof springs, the
ends being filled in with finely modelled placques in alto-relievo, in
white on gilt grounds, of "Peace and War". This Saloon has two fireplaces
and is fully lighted by electricity; and around are grouprd the
SPACIOUS AND LOFTY RECEPTION
ROOMS
which include
THE DINING ROOM
34ft by 24ft
with deep panelled ceiling and
bracketted cornice; an adjacent SERVING ROOM having fireplace, sink and
hot plate.
STUDY
24ft by 17ft 6in, with dado.
THE DRAWING ROOM
34ft by 22ft
a Handsome Appartment with a
wide embayed window, 16ft by 7ft, looking to the South over the Terrace
and the Sunk Garden to the Park beyond, the Wensum Valley, and the distant
wooded landscape.
THE BOUDOIR
22ft 6in by 17ft
communicating by folding doors
with the Drawing Room, enjoys the same South view. A casement door gives
access to a broad flight of steps which leads from this room down to the
Terrace Walk.
THE LIBRARY
36ft by 20ft
with wide embayed South window
and a West window also. This room is lined with bookshelves and cupboards
under in oak.
SMOKING ROOM
24ft by 16ft
with door leading to LAVATORY
which has a fireplace and in which are a double basin lavatory with plated
legs and fittings, a full length BATH with marble surround enclosed within
a mahogany casing, whilst adjoining is a WC.
THE BILLIARD ROOM
27ft 6in by 22ft
also a good room, is retired
along a short corridor off the Saloon, and is lighted by both West and
North windows.
These several reception
rooms are appropriately fitted with marble mantels and basket and other
grates. They have oak window frames and sashes, oak borders to floors
and are fully lighted with electricity.
ARCADED CONSERVATORY
120ft long by 12ft 6in wide
with tesselated pavement and
slate shelving. This is heated by hot water and lighted by eletricity
and terminates in a
HANDSOME AND LOFTY WINTER
GARDEN
60ft by 26ft
also heated by hot water
and lighted by electricity.
THE STAIRCASE HALL
24ft by 12ft
from off which is another fittee
Lavatory and WC, is lighted by a two-mullion window with transom, and the
WIDE STAIRCASE
with open and gilded balusters
of Tudor type, rises in three easy flights to the Principal Bed Room Floor,
the upper panels of the walls of the Hall being fitted with Seascapes,
in oil, by F J Sang.
The Principal Bedrooms
open from a series of corridors
surrounding the light well over the Saloon which have therefore ample light.
On the First Floor:
THE UPPER HALL
24ft by 16ft
THE PRINCIPAL SUITE
comprising BED ROOM (22ft
by 17ft 6in) DRESSING ROOM and BATH ROOM.
EIGHT BEDROOMS & FOUR
DRESSING ROOMS
a second BATH ROOM (h&c),
SMALL WARDROBE ROOM, Two WC's, Housemaid's Closet
and Servants' Staircase.
On the Second Floor:
EIGHT LARGE SECONDARY BEDROOMS
FIVE SERVANTS BEDROOMS
and a BATH ROOM (h&c),
Housemaid's Closet (h&c), WC
There are also in the Servants'quarters,
FIVE MEN-SERVANTS' BEDROOMS
AND SEVEN MAID-SERVANTS
ROOMS
making a total of :
Thirty-nine Bed and Dressing
Rooms and Four Fitted Baths of which twelve are Principal Bed and dressing
rooms, eight are Secondary Bedrooms and the remainder the Servants' Accomodation.
THE DOMESTIC OFFICES
on a lower level have the great
advantage of being both commodious and compact. The rooms are spacious
and light, and include Kitchen, Scullery, Game , Meat and Pastry Larders,
Dairy, Large servant's Hall, Housekeeper's Room, Butler's Pantry and Bedroom,
Steward's room, Plate and Muniment Rooms, Valet's Room and Bedroom, Boot
and Knife Rooms, Wine and beer Cellars, WC, etc.
ELECTRIC LIGHT
is connected to all parts of
the House and Stabling. The plant comprises a 16hp oil driven Hornsby
Engine, Switchboard and Dynamo by Thos. Parker, and Battery consisting
of 54 cells. (approx 110 volts.)
THE WATER SUPPLY
is both excellent and plentiful.
The drinking water is pumped from a deep well under the house, the domestic
supply is driven by a water wheel near Elsing Mill to large storage tanks
in the roof, from which it is laid on all over the house and premises.
THE SYSTEM OF SANITATION
has been examined every year
and is at the present time believed to be perfect. The discharge
is to settling chambers and thence into a dyke at a long remove from the
house.
SOIL
The Mansion stands on sand
and gravel.
THE STABLING
is in character with the Mansion,
no expense having been spared in its arrangement and fitting. It
affords ample accomodation arranged around a spacious Stable Yard, and
is lighted by electricity and ample water supply is laid on.
THE CLOCK TOWER
is a prominent feature.
There are Five Stalls, Seven loose Boxes, Pony Stable for two, Sick Bay,
Harness Room, Saddle Room, Three Double Coach-Houses and
GARAGE FOR SIX CARS
Covered Washing Yard, Store
Shed, Liggage cart House, and above large Granary and Forage Lofts.
The
MEN'S ACCOMODATION
comprises Mess Room and four
Bedrooms. There is also a BLACKSMITH'S SHOP with Forge and two Shoeing
Stalls. Brew House etc.
THE CHAUFFEUR'S COTTAGE
and
GARDNER'S COTTAGE,
each contain Four Bedrooms,
Sitting Room, Living Room, Scullery and Larder.
THE PLEASURE GARDENS
are raised upon a Terrace and
enclosed with dwarf open stone balustrading with piers at intervals terminating
in ball finials and the dominent feature of these gardens is the natural
beauty of the position commanding from the various fronts distant vistas
and expanses of the beautifully timbered Park and countryside, with the
River Wensum threading the valley between.
ORNAMENTAL WOODS
planted with Cedars and other
finely-grown Conifers, with banks of massed Shrubberies, give shelter from
the East and West.
Wide flights of stone steps
from the house across the Broad Walk descend to
THE FORMAL GARDEN
with its Lilly Pond
THE KITCHEN GARDEN
is entered under a stone
arch from the Broad Walk and has a 12ft wall pierced on two sides by arched
gateways with iron grille gates. Beyond is the
HERBACIOUS WALK
enclosed by clipped yew
hedges and this gives access to
A BROAD WOODLAND WALK
through deep belts of Cedars,
Corsican and other Pines, Cypress, Oak, Beech, Acacia, Lime, Yew, Rhododendron,
and many Evergreen Shrubs, terminating in the Church Walk across the Park.
THE PARK
as may be seen from the photographs,
is of undulating and extraordinarily attractive character, with mature
Woodlands, and it contains a very sporting
12 HOLE GOLF COURSE
and being almost entirely enclosed
by a brick wall, will hold a very large head of game without damage to
adjoining land.
Near the Bawdeswell Lodge
is the
KEEPER'S COTTAGE
of four rooms and a wash house,
and range of Rearing Sheds and Small Stable.
And there is another Cottage
in the Park making a total of
THREE LODGES AND FOUR COTTAGES
THE ESTATE BRICK YARD
is entirely screened away
from the House and Park, in the Big Wood. It comprises Modern Brick
Kiln with Ranges of Drying and Working Sheds etc.
Lot 2
OLD HALL FARM 402
acres
Lot 3
PARK FARM 372 acres
Lot 4 - Lot 140
A further 33 farms, agricultural
land, woods (Including Foxley Wood), and 84 houses/cottages in Bawdeswell,
Foxley, Swanton Morley, Elsing, Lyng, Weston Longville and Worthing.
Manor farm, Hoe. 466a
Home Farm, Worthing 178a
Leeds Farm, Worthing
47a
Waterfall Farm, Swanton
Morley 297a
Hill House, Swanton Morley
208a
The White House, Swanton
Morley 18a
Little Haze, Swanton Morley
47a
Field House Farm, Swanton
Morley/Worthing 896a
Darby’s Farm, Swanton Morley
84a
Park Farm, Swanton Morley
207a
Castle Farm, Swanton Morley
349a
Pennyspot, Elsing
65a
Jubilee Farm, Elsing
87a
Mill Farm, Elsing
141a
Elsing Mill, 13a
Mill Street Farm, Elsing
79a
Elsing Heath, 21a
Green Farm, Elsing
118a
Foxley Wood
Gibbethill Plantation and
Billingford Covert
Sparham Hole Plantation
Three Bridges Farm, Elsing
176a
Manor Farm, Lyng 251a
Mill Farm, Lyng 45a
Yew Tree Farm, 107a
Baker’s Farm, Lyng
82a
Collen’s Green Farm, Lyng
208a
The Willows Farm, Weston
Longville 249a
Park farm, Bawdeswell
266a
Old Hall Farm, Foxley
88a
Church Farm, Foxley
216a
Manor Farm, Foxley
260a
Moor Farm, Foxley
119a
Wood Farm, Bawdeswell/Foxley
93a
May Tree Farm, Bawdeswell
49a
School Buildings, Bawdeswell
The Chequers Public House,
Foxley
97 Lots sold at Auction,
but 43 lots including the House and Park did not.
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