Auction sale particulars in six lots – 20 February 1963 – auctioneers: G. Tarn Bainbridge & Son, 44 High Row, Darlington; – solicitors: Close, Thornton & Hobson of 2 Duke Street, Darlington, Cress Tarn of 130 High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Latimer, Hinks, Marsham & Little of 7/8 Priestgate, Darlington and Trotter, Bruce & Loft of 56 North Bondgate Bishop Auckland; – at Imperial Hotel, Darlington; – Lot 1: 7 Tees View Cottages, Hurworth Place (entrance passage, sitting room, living room, scullery, pantry, three bedrooms, bathroom); freehold; rateable value £16; – Lot 2: River View, 20 The Front, Middleton-one-Row (passage entrance, sitting room, dining room, living room, scullery, pantry, three bedrooms, bathroom); freehold; rateable value £24; – Lot 3: 26 Salters Avenue, Haughton-le-Skerne: dwellinghouse (entrance hall; lounge; living room; kitchenette; pantry; three bedrooms; bathroom); 0.75 acre smallholding (3 greenhouses, cold frames, potting shed, tool shed, pig house, litter house, battery house, two poultry houses), freehold, rateable value £40; – Lot 4: Whorlton Church of England School with outline planning permission for conversion to two dwellinghouses (vestibule, two schoolrooms, vestibule and cloakroom) ‘An Electric Clock is built-in to the frontal elevation of the School and is visible from many parts of the Village. Whilst this Clock is included in the sale entirely without reservations or restrictions it is hoped that the Purchaser will find himself able to preserve the Clock in its present situation for the benefit of the Village at large’; – Lot 5: 68 and 70 Park Place, Darlington (each an entrance passage, sitting room, living room, scullery, pantry, two bedrooms); freehold, £12 rateable value, tenants Miss L. Kivington and Mr W. S. H. Dodds each paying 14/6 per week rent; – Lot 6: 16 Harcourt Street, Darlington (entrance lobby, living room, kitchen, pantry, two bedrooms), freehold, rateable value £14, in occupation of B. Andrews at rent of £18.4.0 per annum – From: Agriculture