Residential Holding comprising Delightful Residence, Commodious Outbuildings and Deep Feeding Pasture Land, the whole containing an area of about 13 acres.
Howes, Luce, Williams & Panes are instructed by Messrs. P. W. Pearce & Son (who have purchased a larger farm) to offer for Sale by Auction at The Blue Bowl Inn on Wednesday, 3rd Feb 1960 at 7 p.m.
Situate at the junction of Memorial Road, Whittucks Road, Common Road and Abbots Road. Within 1 mile of the main High Street at Hanham where there is a good shopping centre and frequent bus service to the centre of Bristol, and within five miles of Bristol.
The Residence, which stands conveniently back from the road, is detached, constructed of stone with freestone facings and has tiled roof.
Image above: The new development at Crossley Farm
According to an old map dated 1670 this farm, the farm house of which stands at the junction of Common Road and Abbots Road was part of Hanham Heath.
Within living memory it had always been used as a dairy farm but was sold in 1960 for £6450. The farm, which was bounded by Abbots Road, Common Road and Castle Farm Road, extending to 12.5 acres, has now been developed as the Castle Farm Estate and contains 231 houses.
Persons currently buying land for building must look back with envy to the time in 1960 when it could be purchased for less than £30 per plot.
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