The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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VALUABLE FREEHOLD DIVELLING-HOUSES, IN
DERBY-HOUSE PARK, NEAR ROCK FERRY, IN
THE COUNTY OF CHESTER.
By M rs. ess CHURTON,
On WEDNESDAY, the 12th September, at Six o'clock in the
Afternoon, (unless previously disposed of by private contract,
of which notice will be given,) at the Royal Rock Ferry Hotel,
Rock Ferry, near Birkenhead, in the county of Chester, in
the following Lots, (subject to conditions then and there to
be produced,)
Lot LTHE Fee-simple and Inheritance of and in all
those Four several MESSUAGES or DWELLING-
HOUSES, with the Out-offices, Yards, and Appurtenances
thereto respectively belonging, in the several occupations of
Mr. M`Donald, Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Lorriman, and Mrs. Smith,
as tenants, situate, standing, and being in a newly laid-out
street, called John street, in Derby-house Park, near Rock
Ferry, in the county of Chester ; the Plot of Land on which the
same Houses and Out-offices have been built, with the Yards
thereto belonging, containing 582 superficial square yards of
Land. or thereabouts.
Lot 2.—fhe Fee-simple and Inheritance of and in all those
Five several MESSUAGES or DWELLING-HOUSES and
SHOP, with the Out-offices, Yards, and Appurtenances there-
unto respectively belonging, three of which, in the several oc-
cupations of Mr. Holden, Mr. Lea, and Mr. Hitchen, are situ-
ate, standing, and being in a newly laid out street, lately called
Duke-street, but now called King-street, in Derby-house Park
aforesaid ; another of which, and the Shop, in the occupation
of Mr. Cornwall, are situate, standing, and being at the corner
of King-street and John-street aforesaid ; and the other of
which, in the occupation of Mr. Ennion, is situate, standing,
and being in John-street aforesaid ; the Plot of Land on which
the Houses and Buildings comprised in this Lot have been built,
with the Yards thereto respectively belonging, containing 877
superficial square yards of Land, or thereabouts.
The Houses and Shop in the above Lots are very substantially
built; each House contains two Sitting-rooms, a Drawing-
room, five Bed-rooms, Kitchens, Cellars, &c., and are well
finished. . _ _

Further particulars may be obtained from Mr. JOHN
HITCHEN, Builder and Surveyor, Derby-house Park, near
Birkenhead; at the Office of Mr. Duivivo.li. Solicitor, Tar-
porley ; and from litersrs. CHURTON, at their Offices in Whit-
church, Chester, and Liverpool.