THE HORSE SHOE INN,
DOWNEND 4 Miles from Bristol.
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Sale of a spacious and exceedingly well situated Roadside Free
PUBLIC HOUSE,
With extensive STABLING, BREWHOUSE,
OUTBUILDINGS and large Gardens, also a close
of highly productive PASTURE LAND, and a small Garden adjoining.
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TO BE SOLD BY
AUCTION
BY
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W. PANTING,
Upon the Premises
On Wednesday the 9th day of September, 1863.
At Four o’clock in the afternoon, subject to conditions to be then produced. In 2 Lots as under.
LOT 1. All that commodious Freehold roadside Inn, or Public House, known as the Horse Shoe Inn, with the large stables, convenient brewhouse, covered in skittle alley, and three large and productive Gardens, containing upwards of 1 acre thereto belonging. Excellently situated in the centre of the village of Downend, in the parish of Mangotsfield, at the crossroads leading from Bristol to Chipping Sodbury, and the new road, in the occupation of Mr. Holder, as yearly tenant.
LOT2. All that very valuable close of Freehold Pasture Land and small Garden, containing about 1 acre and a quarter or thereabouts, adjoining to lot 1, in the occupation of Mr. Burchell, Sen. as yearly tenant. This lot is exceedingly well situated for building Sites, having a commanding frontage to two Roads in the centre of the village, & abundance of stone may be dug on the premises.
N.B. LOT 1. Offers an excellent oppportunity to Brewers or Maltsters, as a Trade Investment, and Lot 2 is very eligible to Builders for a like purpose. Half the purchase money may remain on Mortgage if desired.
To view the premises apply to the tenants and for further particulars to the Auctioneer, or to
Messrs Chubb and Son,
Solicitors, Malmesbury.
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M. ALEXANDER, Printer, MALMESBURY,
Lots 1 and 2 were subsequently bought by the tenant of the Horse Shoe Inn Isaac Holder for the sum of £800 ..
I Isaac Holder of Downend in the parish of Mangotsfield in the county of Gloucestershire, Innkeeper, do hereby acknowledge that I have this day become the purchaser of Lots 1 & 2 of the property comprised in the annexed particular at the sum of Eight hundred pounds ... and have paid into the hands of Mr. Thomas Henry Chubb the solicitor for the vendor the sum of Eighty pounds ... as a deposit and in part payment of the said purchase money and I hereby agree to pay the remaining sum of Seven hundred and twenty pounds, unto the vendor at the offices of Messrs Chubb and Son at Malmesbury Wilts on or before the twenty first day of October next and in all other respects on my part to fulfil the foregoing conditions of sale.
Dated the Ninth day of September 1863.