Wandsworth Common

Two properties on Wandsworth Common were offered at auction by Winstanley and Son. The first was a very desirable Cottage Residence, elegantly fitted up, with stable, yard, and about an acre of productive kitchen and pleasure-grounds; situated on an extensive common, adjoining to (though screened from) the road between London and Wandsworth, about five miles from the Bridges. The house comprised entrance hall, small library, drawing and dining-rooms, nine bed-rooms and dressing-rooms, bath, water-closets, kitchen, scullery, butler's pantry, and every domestic office, amply supplied with spring and soft water. The tenure was for three lives, renewable.

Freehold Estates at Wandsworth comprising a Cottage Orné, and an elegant new Villa commanding views over Earl Spencer's Park; about forty acres of land suitable for the erection of Villas; and one hundred and seventy-one acres of Arable and Meadow Ground, let to different tenants at £546 8s., together with ground rents amounting to £80 10s. arising out of houses, and 33 acres of land highly improvable as leases drop in.