North Devon Estate Sold For £20,500 - Walland Cary

Most Bucks Homes Go To Tenants

Wolland Cary Estate, comprising 338 acres, at Bucks, near Bideford, was sold by auction at Bideford yesterday for a total of £20,578. Vendor was Col H C Cary Batten, of Yeovil.
Formerly in the hands of the Elwes family, the estate was built up about 60 years ago. Part had been disposed of previously, and yesterday Wolland Cary House, the home farm, accommodation land, and properties at Bucks Cross and Bucks Mills were sold.
Mr C A M Freake of Riverside, Northam, obtained the house and farm for £8,000. Included with Wolland Cary House were the entrance lodge, stables, coachman's cottage, and grounds. The residence contains nine bed and dressing-rooms.
The home farm has about 123 acres, 55 of which are arable and pasture land, 40 acres plantations, and the remainder cliff and foreshore. The farm house was formerly the keeper's cottage.
Bucks Mills Hotel, with five bedrooms, was sold to the tenant, Mrs E M Braund, for £1,800, and the Smugglers's Cottage, Bucks Mills, went to Mr H Bridgeman-Williams, of Harley Street, London, for £1,050, together with five acres of woodland for £125.
All the other cottages were sold to the present tenants. Prices ranged from £500 for stone and slated cottages at Bucks Cross to £1,460 for the 18th century Laburnum Cottage, Bucks Mills. The Cabin, containing one room and a bedroom, standing on the edge of the cliff overlooking the bay, was sold for £625 to Miss J A N Ackland, tenant.
Bunker's Farm, a small holding with a farmhouse and just over an acre of land, went for £600 to the tenant, Mr
Frank Davey, and the village shop at Bucks Cross was sold for £1,100 to Mr W Pennington, tenant.
The village school, with vacant possession, was bought by Mr F R Martin, of 6 Mills Street, Bideford, for £575. Over seven acres of woodland were bought by Messrs E W S Bartlett, timber merchants, Bideford, for £800, while Barton Wood, containing 97 acres, adjoining the famous Hobby Drive, was withdrawn. Auctioneers were Messrs Jackson-Stops and Staff, Yeovil.

26 October 1948