This conveyance is made the nineteenth day of August One thousand nine hundred and twenty nine Between Herbert Joseph Ward of Northwood lsle of Wight William Considine and Hugh Herbert Considine both of Edinburgh (hereinafter called the Grantors) of the one part and the Urban District Council of Cowes in the said lsle (hereinafter called the Council) of the other part. Whereas under and by virtue of an Indenture of Settlement dated the eighth day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy four and made between William George Ward and Edward Granville Ward of the first part the said William George Ward of the second part Francis Richard Wegg Prosser and John Cashel Hoey of the third part and the Reverend William McAuliffe and John Hope Wingfield of the fourth part certain freehold property situate in the Parish of Northwood and elsewhere in the Isle of Wight including the property known as Northwood House and grounds hereinafter assured stood limited at the death of the said Edmund Granville Ward hereinafter recited to such uses and upon such trusts intents and purposes as the said Edmund Granville Ward should by his Will or any Codicil or Codicil thereto appoint and whereas the said Edmund Granville Ward duly made his Will dated the twenty fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fifteen and thereby appointed the said William McAuliffe and William Considine executors and trustees thereof and alter making certain specific bequests and devises not affecting the property hereinafter assured the testator devised and bequeathed all the real and personal property whatsoever or wheresoever of or to which he should be seized possessed or entitled at his death or over which he should then have a general power of appointment or disposition by will(except property thereby or by any special codicil thereto otherwise specifically disposed of) unto and to the use of his Trustees their heirs, executors or administrators respectively upon trust to sell the same and to deal with the moneys arising from such sale as therein directed and Whereas the said Edmund Granville Ward died on the second day of September one thousand nine hundred and fifteen without having revoked or altered his said Will which was on the twentieth day of April One thousand nine hundred and seventeen duly proved by the said William McAuliffe and “William Considine in the principal probate registry and whereas an indenture dated the first day of November One thousand nine hundred and twenty two made between the said William Considine of the first part the said William McAuliffe of the second part and the said Hugh Herbert Considine of the third part the said Hugh Herbert Considine was duly appointed by the said William McAuliffe and William Considine to be a trustee of the said Will in the place of the said William McAuliffe (who retired from the trusteeship thereof) for all the purposes for which the said William McAuliffe was appointed a trustee by the said Will and the said William Considine and William McAuliffe thereby declared that the trust estate and premises which were then subject to the trusts of the said Will should vest in the said William Considine and Hugh Herbert Considine as joint tenants for all such estate and interest as the said William Considine and William McAuliffe or either of them had therein respectively immediately before the execution of the said Indenture and upon the trust and subject to the powers and provisions applicable thereto by virtue of the said Will or otherwise and whereas by Deed of Appointment dated the twenty second day of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty seven and made between the said William Considine and Hugh Herbert Considine of the one part and the said Herbert Joseph Ward of the other part the said William Considine and Hugh Herbert Considine appointed the said Herbert Joseph Ward to be an additional trustee of the said Will to act jointly with them for all the purposes of the said Will of the said Edmund Granville Ward deceased on such of the same purposes as were still subsisting and capable of taking effect and whereas the grantors have agreed to convey to the Council by deed of gift the property known as Northwood House Offices and Grounds to the intent that the same should be held by them as local government offices and as public pleasure grounds for the inhabitants of Cowes and whereas the Council in pursuance and by virtue of the powers enabling them so to do have agreed so to accept the same.

Now this deed witnesseth that in pursuance of the said agreement the grantors as sellors do hereby convey onto the Council the property known as Northwood House Offices and Grounds including the lodges known as Church Lodge and Cowes Lodge all as delineated on the plan annexed hereto and thereeon edged with a Pink colour. Together with the sites of the Roads as coloured brown on the said plan and comprising an area of approximately twenty six acres but excluding the four doors to the Dining Room and Drawing Room Pilasters Framed Architraves and Overmantels on inside of Rooms and seven mantelpieces in the house also Wall and Ceiling Frescoes in the Drawing Room which the Grantors may remove within six month from the date hereof and in place of which substitute such other doors framed architraves etc and mantelpieces as they may determine and also substitute plain panels where Frescoes removed as necessary. To hold the same unto the Council in fee simple for the purposes hereinafter expressed and declared concerning the same that is to say (1) That Northwood House Ofices shall forever hereafter be maintained for the use of the Council as Offices for the several departments of the Council for the housing of caretakers and for any other such local government purposes as to the Council from time to time seem proper: The Council to have power to alter the House and Offices as needed for municipal purposes and to demolish unnecessary parts thereof provided that the Council may Iet such apartments in Northwood House as are suitable for Meetings Concerts and other Entertainments and exact and receive payments for such lettings and to make regulations for the due management thereof and also to sell refreshments on the premise and receive rental from contractors for such refreshments (2) That the land surrounding the House as set forth on the said plan and thereon edged Pink shall now or hereafter provided for ever be maintained exclusively as pleasure grounds and as a place of recreation for the inhabitants and visitors to Cowes and and of any district that may at any time hereafter be joined to and form part of Cowes Provided that the Council may on any part of the land form Tennis Courts, Bowling Greens, Putting Courses and the like and may erect necessary Conveniences, Band Stands, Pavilions, Refreshment Rooms, Baths and the like and may make charges for the respective user of the same and the income derived therefrom together with the income derived from the lettings of the House under Paragraph (1) hereof shall be applied in accordance with the statutory powers and obligations of the council relating thereto Provided that the Council shall not obtain a permanent Licence for sale of intoxicating liquors in respect of the premises conveyed by may obtain temporary or occasional licences on the occasion of Fetes, Entertainments and the like. Provided also that the Council may within their statutory powers close the House and Grounds or part thereof at such times and to such persons as they in their discretion shall think fit and may make byelaws and regulations with regard to the due and proper management and control thereof and with regard to the behaviour of persons using the same and to let the grounds and to make charges for admission thereto. And Provided further that the Council may from time to time lay out form or widen such roads and paths in the grounds or bounding the same as they may deem necessary and set aside spaces for parking places for vehicles and to make charges for the use thereof. Such parking places shall be situated in the neighbourhood of Park Road and care shall be taken by the Council by means of regulation and othererwise to maintain the amenities of the House and Grounds. And in consideration of the Gift and Conveyance hereinbefore contained the Council do hereby covenant with the Grantors to observe the several provisions herein contained and within two years from the date hereof to construct a public road of forty feet in width (but shall not be under any obligation to kerb and channel the same) and to erect fences where necessary from the point marked E in Baring Road on the said plan to the point marked A in Park Road (including the small section running westward marked C D) and to lay all necessary services that is to say sewer water and gas pipes in the same. Such roadways coloured Brown on the plan annexed hereto shall thereafter be repaired by the inhabitants at large and no charge in respect of same or for forming kerbs or channels if formed shall be demandable from the grantors or their assignees. Provided that in the event of the Council not being able to obtain adequate financial assistance from the Ministry of Transport and County Council toward the construction of the whole of the road between the points A and E on the plan within the period of two years then the Council shall be entitled to delay constructing that portion of the Roadway from Northwood House to Park Road between points marked B and C until the expiration of a further period of two years making four years from the date hereof but shall within the first said mentioned period of two years construct the portion of the roadway from the point marked A to the point marked B as well as the roadway from Northwood House to Baring Road C to E (including the small portion running westward between the points marked C and D) The Council further covenant within one year from the date hereof to carry out the following sewerage works (a) Lay a sewer from Mr Mundy's house in Baring Road to the top of Castle Hill and relay or repair the sewer from there to the Round House to the entrance gates to Deboume (c) Lay a sewer from the bottom of Tutton's Hill Gurnard to Gurnard Church (d) Repair or relay the sewer from the Briary to the end of the old Esplanade, The sewers to be of such capacity as to be laid at such depth as to provide sewerage facilities adequate for the development of the properties to be served by such sewers

In witness whereof the Grantors have hereunto set their hands and seals and the Council have caused their common seal to be hereunto affixed the day and year first above written.