PI/1/2
Reference code
PI/1/2
Level of description
Sub-series
Title
Leases of Numbered Close Properties 1737 to 1987
Original Title
Chapter Leases in the Close
Date
1737-1998
Quantity & Format
10 box
Description
A collection of nine boxes of leases of Close property owned by the Dean and Chapter. They scan the period 1737-1987 although there are very few from the post war period. Many of the leases include plans. Details of individual documents are listed in the hardcopy catalogue.
The leases are arranged in bundles in house number order. They contain documents for: Bishops Walk; No 7; No 8; No 9; No 10; No 11; No 12; South Side of St Ann's Gate; Room over St Ann's Gate; Messuage on North Side and Room Called St Ann's Chapel; House on North Side of Close Near St Ann's Gate; No 14; No 15; No 16; No 17; No 18; No 20; No 21; No 22; No 23; No 24; No 25; No 26; No 27; No 29; No 30; No 31; No 33 (Ladywell); No 34; No 35; Premises North of Close Next to No 35; No 36; No 36b; No 37; No 38; No 48; No 48a; No 49; Cottage Within the North Gate; No 50; No 52; No 53 (Mompesson House); No 54 (Hungerford Chantry); No 55; No 55a; No 56; No 56b (Hemingby); No 57 (Ilex Cottage); No 57a; No 57b; No 58 (The Wardrobe); Arundells; No 60 and No 61; No 64; No 66; No 68; No 68a; No 69; No 70; No 70b; No 72; South Canonry; No 73; no 74; Dwelling House near Harnham Gate.
Leases of the following properties in the Liberty of the Close are also included; 1 De Vaux Place; 4 De Vaux Place; 2 St Nicholas Road; 4 St Nicholas Road (Myrfield); Lamberts Mead; Deanery Mead; Lower Marsh; Harnham Grazing Land; Old Sarum.
Box 10 is a separate collection of loose lease and related documents brought together 2015-2020 which in may be appropriate to amalgamate with the main series when full cataloguing takes place. These loose leases are not listed in the hard copy catalogue but refer to the following properties: No 9; No 15b (The Laundry), No 20a; No 26; No 33 (Ladywell); No 57; No 68 (Myles Place); No 70b: Meadow Land at West Harnham; Deanery Mead at West Harnham; Deanery Meadow West Harnham; Meadows at Harnham (letter); Land at Harnham (report); 1 De Vaux Place.