JH/BLY/26/16 - [Normandy Cottage sale to Ben Candler and architectural alterations]

JH/BLY/26/16

Sub file

[Normandy Cottage sale to Ben Candler and architectural alterations]

1973
1984-1992

264 items Mixed

Candler, B. W.
Candler, W. M.
Hayward, B. J.
Ablett, Nina

Normandy Cottage, Wenhaston
Mills and Reeve (Firm)
McKenna & Co.

Contains correspondence concerning the gift/sale of the pair of Normandy cottages, Low road, Wenhaston from JH to Ben Candler (estate manager) and his wife W.M. Candler (secretary), and the discontinuation of the partnership tenancy. The sale took place on 29/5/84 and was subject to two tenancies which thus protected the tenancy of Mrs [Nina] Ablett. The Candler's were in the meantime residing at Sotherton Hall. After Mrs Ablett's death the Candler's made plans to renovate the unoccupied cottages. Correspondence from 1989 relates to Candler's employment agreement and severance/retirement settlement which included clauses regarding the resale of the cottages back to the Estate. Later correspondence concerns a misunderstanding of a debt of £10,555 which was due to the architect B.J. Hayward. An agreement is included in which JH undertakes to repay the debt in the form of an interest free loan to the Candlers. Issues surrounding the original conveyancy agreement are also brought up.

Also included are architectural plans of the cottages and a 1988 specification and schedule of work for proposed alterations and additions. Correspondence throughout the sub file is included with the solicitors Mills and Reeve and McKenna and Co.

From the contents of the file it does not appear that the Candlers ever occupied the cottages. In a letter from JH to Candler dated 17/4/90 JH writes "... it would be preferable if you did not make your new home within the estate or the immediate neighbourhood but move back a bit as your predecessor did."