26 Ely Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

Description

Mortgage by demise and assignment to secure £700 from Robert Hobbes of Stratford-upon-Avon, gentleman, to Edmund Chambers of Binton, farmer, (reciting DR316/19-20, and 23) of: A freehold messuage in Ely Street, now called St. John's Place, late in the tenure of Mrs. Arabella Floyer, then of John Rowden Westbury and now of John Andrew Holmes, purchased by Robert Hobbes of the said Andrew Holmes; and a freehold piece of land on which a messuage and several cottages lately stood, late in the tenures of Mary Edwards, widow, Benjamin Edwards, Avery Edwards, William Sharshaw and Thomas Kemp, but which had been taken down and a new erected schoolroom and sleeping rooms over the same, kitchen, back-kitchen and brew-house and other buildings built in their place (which premises are now in the occupation of Andrew Holmes and form part of a square called St. John's Place); to hold for 2000 years at a peppercorn rent: Also a leasehold piece of garden ground at the top of Ely Street on the south side, late in the occupation of William Eaves, gentleman, then of John Lord, gentleman, since of John Rowden Westbury and now of John Andrew Holmes, bounded on part of the west by gardens belonging to tenements late of John Lane, Daniel Watson and William Hobday, and now of ---- Allan, William Porter and ---- Hobday, widow, on the remaining part of the west by Rother Street, and on the north by Ely Street, on the east by the messuage described above, and on the south by an orchard late belonging to Charles Ingram, deceased, but now to Messrs. Battersbee and Morris, bankers and co-partners; which said garden is now laid open with the other premises described above; to hold the same for the residue of a term of 1000 years.