How Caple Court, Hereford: Additions

HEREFORDSHIRE, on the banks the Wye. Announcement of the Sale of the singularly choice residential and sporting: property known the How Court Estate, charmingly positioned in the parishes of How Caple and Sollershope, five miles from Ross, nine miles from Hereford, 21 miles from the City of Gloucester, 30 miles from Cheltenham, 2½ from Fawley Station, on the Great Western Railway, and under four hours from London. It extends to an area of over 467 acres, and includes a conveniently sized and perfectly appointed family mansion, surrounded by well-matured pleasure grounds, and undulating timbered park descending in gradual and easy slopes to the River Wye The house is erected of red sandstone, and the principal reception rooms command magnificent views over the Valley of the Wye. The stabling accommodates 11 horses. There is a well-built bailiff's residence, with suitable farm premises. The agricultural portion of the property consisting of 332 acres, more or less, comprises about 150 acres of rich-feeding pasture, and the remainder is deep fertile arable. The rights and privileges appertaining to the Manor of How Caple will be included the sale. The sporting is exceptionally good, and includes salmon and trout fishing, partridge and pheasant shooting, and hunting with three packs of hounds. The adjoining estate, known as Garraway Farm, comprising 326 acres, can also be acquired at a price which has been fixed. [Manchester Courier 15 June 1901 page 10]

Lennox Bertram Lee (1864–1949), textile industrialist, was born on 7 November 1864 at 2 Camp Place, Camp Street, Broughton, Salford, the eldest son of the eight children of Sir Joseph Cocksey Lee (1832–1894), cotton spinner and merchant. Lennox Bertram Lee was chairman of the Calico Printers' Association from 1902 until 1947. [Dictionary of National Biography]

Reference    RIBA Journal 14 August 1939 page 950-952
Reference    Manchester Courier 15 June 1901 page 10