Des res in the 1880s

The following two advertisements appeared in ‘The Field’:                                                                          

‘To be let, furnished, early in September, a good sized family house, in the village of Tickhill, seven miles from Doncaster; containing entrance hall, with full sized billiard table; drawing room, dining room, library and smoking room, ten bedrooms, excellent offices etc; good stables and gardens with glass houses, grass paddock. Apply to the owner, B H Brooksbank, The Sand Rock, Tickhill, Rotherham.’ (Saturday, 12 August 1882, page 5.) [Similar advertisements continued to appear until December.]  

‘To be let furnished or unfurnished or to be sold. The Friary Tickhill the nearest town to which is Doncaster, the nearest station is Bawtry, both on main line GNR. The house situated in a pleasant neighbourhood and surrounded by 14 acres of grass land, contains three sitting rooms, smoking room and twelve bedrooms and has compact kitchen premises, spring water laid on and appliances for flushing drains, stabling for five horses, coach house etc and cottage for groom; pretty, old fashioned garden, tennis grounds etc, good hunting country, front stream; also good shooting to be had. Walton and Lee, 20 Mount Street, London, W.’ (Saturday, 10 October 1885, page 5.)