Appendix 7
Advertisement from the Salisbury Journal of the 3rd Mar 1777
Dorsetshire
To be sold by Auction by Mr. Cross on Wednesday the 19th March 1777, on the Premises (if not disposed of before by private Contract, of which timely Notice will be given).
The estate & Effects belonging to John Newton Esq. at Spetisbury within 3 Miles of Blandford, in the County of Dorset; consisting of an elegant Mansion House forming a Centre and two Wings, fit for a Nobleman’s Family, containing on the Ground Floor a large dining Parlour, elegantly furnished in Stucco; two other Parlours neatly fitted up; a Withdrawing Room superbly finished, and hung with crimson Damask; a spacious Hall, Housekeeper’s Room, Cellars & etc.
On the next Story are four Dressing Rooms, & six Bed Chambers. On the attic Story are six Bedchambers together with proper Rooms for Servants; the whole commanding a most beautiful prospect of the Country.
Adjoyning the House are a fine Range of Outbuildings such as spacious & convenient Kitchens, Larders, Bake-house, Brew-house, Wash-house, Laundry, Servants’ Hall, Dairy, Dove-house, Poultry-house, Grainery, and Stabling for near 30 Horses, with Servants’ Room over the same.
The Garden around the above Premises is genteely laid out, and consists of about six acres, with Green-house, Hot-house, Summer-house, & every convenience therein. Contiguous thereto runs the River Stour, with an extensive right of Fishery; as also Hunting, Fowling, & etc over the Manor of Sturminster Marshall.
Together with a Farm of about Three hundred & Sixty Acres of Arable, Meadow, & Pasture Land, in the Centre of which is an exceedingly good Farm-house, with Barns, Grainery, Stables, etc., the yearly Value of which Farm is £200.
The Mansion House, Outbuildings, Gardens & Farm will be sold in one lot. Immediately after the Sale of which will follow the Household Furniture which consists of elegant standing Beds, with Damask, Chintz, Cotton, Morine, & other Furniture, & Window Curtains of the same; fine seasoned Goose Feather beds, Mattrasses, Blankets, Quilts, & Counterpanes, rich Pier & Dressing Glasses, Mahogany Furniture in Bureaus, Drawers, Book-cases, Dining, Card, Pillar, & Pembroke Tables, Side-board Ditto, Sophas & Chairs, rich Axminster, Turkey & Wilton Carpets; eight day Clocks in Mahogany & Jappanned Cases; together with good Kitchen Furniture, Brewing Utensils, some Wines, etc.
The Premises may be viewed any day by applying at the Mansion House; or by Mr. Robt. Lovell, Spetisbury aforesaid, and the Furniture on the Monday & Tuesday preceeding the Sale.
For further Particulars, or treaty by Private Contract, apply to William Cross, Upholder & Undertaker, in Milsom Street, Bath, or Mr. John Ridout at Blandford.
Catalogues will be delivered at proper places in due time.