Description:

On Tuesday 10th November 1900, Gwyrlodydd Farm in Newton comprising Freehold and Copyhold holdings was offered for sale at the Angel Hotel, Abergavenny.

It failed to meet the reserve price and was withdrawn at £2100.

It was described as:-“The substantially-built Farm-house contains; Kitchen, Sitting Room, Back Kitchen, Dairy, Cellar, Five Bedrooms, and the sufficient Domestic Offices.
The well-situated Farm Buildings comprise: Stable for five Cart Horses, Nag Stable, Chaff House, Hay Loft, spacious  Waggon Lodge, large Cattle Shed, Double-bay Barn, Piggeries, Cow-house for ten Cows, Calve’s Cots, & c. There is also a capital supplementary Barn, with Cattle Shed and Yard on another portion of the Farm”.

Items 6 & 7 of the condiitions of sale were:-
“6. The title shall commence with the Will of William George, proved in the Hereford District Registry of the Court of Probate on the 25th day of November, 1870, and the purchaser shall assume that, as is the case, the said William George was at the date of his death on the 15th day of November, 1870, seised of the freehold farm hereditaments and premises, and the tithe rent charge described in the annexed Particulars for an estate of inheritance in fee simple in possession free from incumbrances, and that he was seised of the copyhold hereditaments and premises free from incumbrances for lives according to the custom of the Manor of Ewyas Lacey, and that the same passed under the general description contained in the said Will. The small portion of the premises which is of copyhold tenure, is now held for one life without a right to renewal at a yearly rent of 2/3, and a heriot of 5/- on the death or surrender of the tenant.
7. No objection shall be made on the ground of any document executed prior to the I7th day of May, 1888, being unstamped, or insufficiently stamped, if any such there be (which however is not known to be the case.)”

The following are the details of the several Enclosures:—

The Estate is within six miles of Pandy Station, five miles of Pontrilas Station, and three of Abbey Dore Station, all on the Great Western Railway.

There are two tithes payable in respect of this Estate, which amount in the aggregate to £3. 19s. 7d., the apportionment being £5 19s. 2d.

Endorsed : By landtax,Rent £100

Observations:

In Jakeman & Carver’s Directory of Herefordshire, 1890, under the entry for Newton
the occcupier is given as George Watkins, farmer