1950 Rivers Hall details

HE402/1/1950/36 “Rivers Hall” late Mrs.H.L.Glossop.
Entrance Hall, Cloakroom. Morning Room, fireplace & French windows to garden.
Study, fireplace & French windows to garden. Dining room, fireplace & French
windows. Drawing room, carved pitch pine mantelpiece, large bay & several windows
opening on to a verandah with reed thatched roof. Butler’s pantry, Maid’s sitting room,
Kitchen with tiled floor, deep sink, leaded draining board, Aga cooker & Ideal domestic
boiler. Larder with slate shelving.
Principal & Secondary Staircases & Landing on 1st floor. 6 Bedrooms & 2 Bathrooms.
Housemaids pantry & WC, Boxroom, Linen cupboard, Attic bedroom, Tank room.
Mains Electricity, Water pumped by automatic electric pump. Septic tank drainage.
To rear of house are coal & wood stores & brick storeroom & pump house.
Garage block for 3 cars & a stable & harness room.
Brick & tiled woodshed & carpenter’s shop, pig sties & potting shed.
Matured & Well timbered grounds of 6 acres.
Lawns to front of house with a timber & reed thatched garden room. West side is a
tennis lawn with thatched summer house. East side a walled rose garden with lily pond
& a small walled flower garden. North a kitchen garden & orchard. Paddock in front of
house.
Gardener’s Cottage:- adjoining road to the quay. Semi-detached. Brick & slate. Hall,
front room, living room, scullery & 2 bedrooms. Elsan closet. Coal house . Large garden.
Mains electricity. Water from pump. Cottage occupied by Alfred Nunn, aged 80, retired
gardener, rent free & free of rates during rest of his lifetime.
Sold to G.H. Meysey Thompson £8,100.