Chedworth Roman Villa correspondence to Bruton, Knowles and Co. of Gloucester
Category
Archive Collections
Date
1924 - 1947
Materials
Collection
Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire
NT 72364
Summary
Chedworth Roman Villa correspondence to Bruton, Knowles and Co. of Gloucester. Estate agency files Records of Bruton, Knowles and Co. of Gloucester, estate agents, auctioneers and values. Dates from 1924 to 1947. Gloucestershire Archives reference numbers: D2299/10130: Roman Villa, Chedworth, Correspondence. Original bundle. 1939 - 1947 D2299/4423: Roman Villa, Chedworth, Scale of charges, rating assessment, 8 letters. 1924 - 1927 Taken from The National Archives Discovery page: D2299 Records of Bruton, Knowles and Co. of Gloucester, estate agents, auctioneers and values. Correspondence files with draft and printed sale catalogues and particulars, valuations, reports and arbitrations, and other estate papers relating to properties throughout Gloucestershire, neighbouring parts of Wiltshire, Monmouthshire and other counties. The files relate to the sale, leasing and valuation of property undertaken by Messrs. Bruton, Knowles and Co. of Gloucester, and further details of the types of documents are given in B.S. Smith, 'The Business Archives of Estate Agents', Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. III, No. 6 (Oct. 1967), pp. 298-300. The property dealt with was largely landed estates and agricultural land in the earlier period, with an increasing proportion of house agency; there are also many files relating to industrial and commercial premises.