| Description | (Property comprises a capital messuage called Catsgrove or Catlesgrove [Katesgrove House], with two kilns nearby and 2 a. hilly and pit ground used for digging chalk, clay and earth; a close (formerly three closes) of arable and pasture ground adjoining the same, formerly called Catsgrove Hill Closes (5 a.); a small piece of ground formerly called Blount's Orchard, adjoining the River Kennet at Katesgrove; three messuages, a barn and 4 a. land on the south side of Katesgrove Lane; a piece of ground adjoining the same, formerly a hop ground and garden, now used for digging (1 a.); a moiety of three (formerly six) messuages on the east side of Duke Street; and a moiety of a coachmaker's shop and three pairs of granaries at the north end of the west side of London Street, adjoining the River Kennet on the north and west (formerly the site of a messuage; all in Reading.) |