Sheffield Independent – Saturday 08 April 1854
Sale by Mr Crookes
Conisbrough
To Brewers, Innkeepers & Others
To be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Thos Crookes, at the House of Mrs Walker, the Eagle and Child Inn, Conisbrough, in the County of York, on Wednesday, the Twelth day of April next, a at Six o’clock in the Evening, (unless previously disposed of by Private Treaty, of which due Notice will be given,) in the following or such other Lots as may be agreed upon at the time of Sale, and subject to Conditions to be then produced:
Lot 1 – All that said old established and well accustomed Inn called The Eagle and Child situate in the centre of the thriving, healthy and pleasant village of Conisbrough. Together with the extensive Fold Yard, Orchard, Garden Ground, Barn, Stables, Corn Chamber, large Club Room, Skittle Ground, Outbuildings, Conveniences and appurtenances to the same adjoining and belonging the site contains 3800 square yards or thereabouts. On this lot is a well and pump with an inexhaustible supply of the purest spring water . A common right over the extensive commons of Conisbrough is also attached.
Lot 2 – All those four cottages, Shoemakers Shop, Outbuildings, Conveniences and Appurtenances to the same belonging situate near to the said Inn and premises as the same are now in the several occupations of Emma Ogley, Sarah Ogley, Chas Lewis and James Gregory, the site thereof contains 230 square yards or thereabouts. A common right over the extensive Commons of Conisbrough is also attached.
Lot 3 – All those three cottages, tenements or dwelling houses, cow house, outbuildings and conveniences to the same adjoining and belonging situate near to the said last mentioned premises now in the several occupations of Richard Lawton, Betty Watts and John Brammah. The site of the lot containing 391 square yards.
The above described Inn owing to its immediate proximity to the ancient and far famed Castle of Conisbrough, to the beautiful scenery of which numerous visitors, tourists and strangers are continually attracted and the railway station being a few minutes of the Inn renders it a great accommodation to the parties drawn to this delightful rural locality.