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Valuation Survey - Badsey (assessment number 367)

Parish
Assessment Number
367
National Archives Field Book Reference
IR58/93293
Date Inspected
11 Oct 1912
Present-day Address or Approximate Location
Bowers Hill Farm & School Cottage, Bowers Hill

Property description

Description
Buildings and Land
Estimated Extent
47a 3r 6p
Interest of Owner
Freehold
Situation
Bowers Hill Farm
Particulars
House, buildings, pasture land, glasshouses and cottage. 2 glasshouses 120 feet x 29 feet each, 3 glasshouses 120 feet x 25 feet, 1 glasshouse 100 feet x 12 feet; 2 packing sheds 150 feet x 27 feet each; brick reservoir for rainwater from glasshouses; handyman’s oil engine and engine house; 4 glasshouses heated. House – brick, plaster and tile, 2 attics and boxroom, 3 bedrooms, lavatory, bathroom, hot and cold, verandah, hall, 3 receptions rooms, stone floor, larder, kitchen and store, cellar (damp), coalhouse and furnace (not very good repair). Cottage – brick stone and tile, old but fair repair, laundry room, brick kitchen, ? wood and iron furnace coalhouse opening, 3 bedrooms.

Occupier, owner and rent details

Occupier's name
James DE R OPENSHAW
Owner's Name
John IDIENS & SONS LTD AND HIS MORTGAGEES
Address of Owner (as in Valuation Book or Provisional Valuation)
Provisional Valuation has Messrs Young & Gilling, Promenade, Cheltenham, on behalf of J W Halsey & A A Barnard
Owner Notes
"F B Pottinger (receiver)" listed as owner in 1909 Valuation Book
Rent Amount
Valuer has written "not known"

Valuation details

Valuation Notes
Includes 368 and 369 and Willersey (Gloucs) 92
Gross Value (amount which the land might be expected to make on the open market, free of any encumbrances)£4045
Full Site Value (amount which remained after deducting the value of the buildings, etc, from the gross value of the land)£2025
Total Value (gross value, with deductions made for any fixed charges, rights of way and rights of common)£4045
Assessable Site Value£2025
Deductions for buildings and structures (when working out the full site value)£1800
Deductions for timber (when working out the full site value)£30
Deductions for fruit trees (when working out the full site value)£65
Deductions for other things growing or on the land (when working out the full site value)£125
Deductions made for fixed charges, etc (when working out the Total Value)£2020

Provisional valuation and sale details

Provisional Valuation Date Confirmed
29 Nov 1912

Additional information

Land Valuation Survey Maps
Views maps (F)
Photos of the property
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2008 photo
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