30 June 1897 (1) Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease of Hutton Hall, Yorkshire, North Riding, M.P.; Arthur Pease of Darlington, esq., M.P.; and Alfred Edward Pease of Pinchinthorpe, Yorkshire, North Riding, esq., M.P. (vendors) (2) Thomas Clarkson of West Hartlepool, chemist; Joseph Paul Clarkson of Darlington, provision merchant, and Richard Charles Pearce of Darlington, auctioneer (purchasers) (3) The Darlington Southend Estate Company Limited Conveyance to (3) of the freehold Southend Estate (27a.), Darlington, subject to the tenancy of William Randolph Innes Hopkins of the mansion and gardens; covenant by (3) not to undertake building work before 13 May 1898; rights of way as specified Consideration: £30,000 Includes: plan of property Endorsed: memorandum of conveyance of Southend mansion and gardens to Eugenie de Marcellus, 18 May 1905, and memorandum of conveyance of 13,806 sq. yds. of land to Canon James Rooney, 2 September 1908 – From:Southend Estate, Darlington, purchased by the Southend Estate Company Limited in 1897