Tag: October 1920

Property Sale at Newton Abbot: A successful sale of property conducted by Messrs. Rendell and Sawdye at Newton Abbot yesterday, “Minerva House ” Highweek, part the estate of the late Mr. W. S. Pinsent with the stabling, outbuildings and extensive gardens attached, was purchased by Mr. W. Vicary, J.P., C.A., for £2,200.  A freehold plot of land at the junction of Kingsteignton and Marsh roads, in the occupation of Mr. A. Knight, at £10 per annum, was sold to the tenant for £200. A free ground rent £2 2s 6d per annum on the adjoining blacksmith’s shop and dwelling house was sold to Mr. E. E. Chapple, for a client, for £100, and a freehold garden, having frontage of about 78 ft. on the Kingsteignton Road with an area of 4,753 sq. ft., or thereabout, was purchased by Mr. Parnell Tucker for £450. Messrs. Watts, Woollcombe and Watts were the solicitors concerned.

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GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920
 

South Devon Will: Mr. William Swain Pinsent, of Newton Bushel, Devon, for many, years a member of the Highweek Parish Council, and Chairman on the amalgamation with the Newton Abbot Urban District, a successful exhibitor of trotting horses, who died on September 4^th has left estate of the value £32,548 5s 2d, the net personalty being £30,361 14s 7d. The will is dated November 3^rd, 1919, and probate thereof is granted to John Douglas Pinsent of 2, Southsea-terrace, Southsea, son, and Arthur S.  Rendell, and Gerald Douglas Woollcombe: both of Newton Abbot. He gives £600 to his grand-daughter Dorothy Iris Prall, £250 to Arthur S. Rendell, £50 to Gerald D. Woollcombe, £100 to his housekeeper Margaret E. Rowe, and the residue of the property as to four-tenths to his son, John Douglas; two tenths each in trust for his daughters Ethel Mary Vaughan and Kathleen Blanche Prall, and two-tenths in trust for his son William Henry.

[see also Western Times: 19^th October 1920:]

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GRO0282 Devonport: Ethel Mary Pinsent: 1869 – xxxx
GRO0520 Devonport: John Douglas Pinsent: 1872 – 1936
GRO0559 Devonport: Kathleen Blanche Pinsent: 1871 – 1949
GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920

Newton Abbot: RENDELL and SAWBYE have received instructions from the Executors the late W. S. Pinsent, Esq., to offer for SALE, by Public Auction, at The Commercial Hotel, Newton Abbot, on WEDNESDAY. October 20th, 1920, at 4 p.m. the following Valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTIES:- Lot 1,The substantially-built RESIDENCE known as “MINERVA HOUSE,” being No. 2, Highweek-street, replete with every modern convenience, and containing 3 Reception-rooms, Billiard-room, seven Bed and Dressing-rooms, Bath (h. and c.) and 6 Bed and Store-rooms on the second floor, together with ample Domestic Accommodation, excellent Stabling, Garage, and Outbuildings, and Extensive FLOWER, FRUIT and VEGETABLE GARDENS, with Vineries, hot and cold Glass-houses, etc., the whole extending to OVER ONE ACRE:  WITH VACANT POSSESSION ON COMPLETION OF PURCHASE. Lot 2, A Freehold Corner PLOT OF LAND, situated at the junction of Kingsteignton Road and the Marsh, forming an excellent BUILDING SITE and now in the occupation of Mr. A. Knight on a yearly tenancy at £10 per annum. Lot 3, A Freehold GROUND RENT of £2 2s 6d per annum, secured on and with the Reversion to the Blacksmith’s Shop Yard and Dwelling-house, situate adjoining Lot 4 and granted for a term of 99 years from December 25th. 1871. Lot 4, The Freehold GARDEN or BUILDING SITE situate between Lots 2 and 3 and having a frontage to Kingsteignton Road of 78 feet (more or less), and an area 4.753 square feet, or thereabouts WITH POSSESSION ON COMPLETION OF PURCHASE. Full particulars, with Conditions Sale, orders to view, may be obtained of the Auctioneers at Newton Abbot, Totnes and Ashburton; or of Messrs. WATTS, WOOLLCOMBE and WATTS, Solicitors, Newton Abbot.

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GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920