Weare Giffard Hall Sold For £11,300 - 3rd March 1967

Clovelly Family Joint Purchasers

The 15th century Manor House of Weare Giffard Hall, with 3 1/2 acres of land and half a mile of fishing in the River Torridge was sold by public auction on Friday £11,300.
Joint purchasers were Miss E Mullins of Ealing, London, and Mr and Mrs Maurice Dickinson, of the Post Office, High Street, Clovelly. Miss Mullins is Mrs Dickinson's aunt.
Weare Giffard Hall, scheduled at being of special historic interest, was built on the site of an old Saxon manor house in about the middle of the 15th century. It is typically Elizabethan in design and is linked principally with the Fortescue family. Other families who have known the Hall include the Courtenays and the Chichesters.
Weare Giffard Hall was one of eight properties and parcels of land offered for sale by public auction at Durrant House Hotel, Northam, by Messrs John Lewington and Company of Bideford. Another lot, three building sites at 'Nilgala', Raleigh, Bideford was sold prior to auction.
Sold for £2,050 was 3.47 acres of building land at Weare Giffard with about half a mile of fishing. Purchaser was Mr S J Davey of Leek, Staffs.
Other properties were unsolf at the auction. A corner shop property, No. 12 Meddon Street, Bideford, was withdrawn at £1,500; corner site property known at Court, The Square, Sheepwash, withdrawn at £1,000; shop and living accommodation at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 The Quay, Bideford, withdrawn at £6,000; commercial premises known as Farmer's Wharf, Barnstaple Street, Bideford, no bid; 4.30 acres of pasture land near Halfpenny Bridge, Weare Giffard, with some fishing rights withdrawn at £250.