IMPRESSIVE FREE OF TIE VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Fantastic opportunity to acquire old established & TripAdvisor highly rated hub of close-knit community life * Stunning detached character premises offering superbly fitted & appointed bar & dining facilities * T/o £220,000PA *Excellent year-round trade in delightful rural village High Street position * Comes with 1-bed private accommodation * Lots of further potential in wonderful lifestyle setting * Priced for very quick genuine Ltd Co sale * Early viewing absolutely essential REF 1066

The subject premises occupy a fantastic and highly visible trading position on the picture postcard main central High Street of a very select village situated with excellent access to major road links in a delightful and affluent Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Northamptonshire.

This old established and “TripAdvisor” highly rated hostelry has become an important focal point of the local, close-knit community in the course of very many years’ highly successful trading by providing all the spacious, welcoming and superbly appointed traditional free-of-tie licensed bar facilities associate with an establishment of this kind.

The Inn is additionally widely renowned both for is range of fine, cask-conditioned real ales and for its full and varied menu of classic a la carte pub meals, snacks, regularly changing international “blackboard specials”, indulgent afternoon cream teas, homemade desserts and hearty carvery roast Sunday lunches.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its extensively equipped commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest, locally-sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a charming and tastefully furnished dedicated restaurant which may accommodate up to sixty covers in style and comfort and is a popular venue for regular themed dining evenings including steak and fish nights and wedding receptions.

The Inn is also a popular venue for regular live music entertainment evenings and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to further development of its private function trade and to operating significantly extended weekday hours in order to fully exploit year-round local demand.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, both through its own informative dedicated website and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it is achieving in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of an experienced and motivated team of ten full-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Constructed of warm golden local stone beneath a pitched tiled roof, the subject premises have been sympathetically converted and modernised over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

The premises provide truly outstanding and “TripAdvisor” highly rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance into the main, spacious and welcoming reception bar with a wealth of exposed original timber work and wood panelling, original working fireplace, mixed tiled, timber and carpeted flooring and stylish mix of traditional and upholstered lounge furnishings.

The main bar area may comfortably accommodate some 40 covers for additional dining purposes and houses a large, fully fitted and timber-built free-of-tie licensed servery with full range of optics, draught and hand-pulled cask pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display and storage shelving, electronic till/food ordering point and prominent menu/specials boards.

Accessed directly from the bar area, of by means of its own separate entrance the ground-floor premises also incorporate an equally charming and attractively appointed dedicated restaurant with stylish furnishings for approximately 100 covers, chilled salad bar and a large heated carvery food display and service unit.

The restaurant also boasts its own, fully fitted and timber-built free-of-tie licensed servery and affords easy access through to a fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system housing ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing up kitchen area and a full range of well maintained, industry-standard catering appliances.

The ground-floor premises naturally also incorporate all the usual separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a good-sized general dry goods/bottle store, together with a fully fitted trade beer cellar with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

To the FIRST FLOOR this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides a single bedroom and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

The property also enjoys the benefit of gas central heating and double glazing throughout, in addition to the added safety and security benefits of full fire and intruder alarm systems.

Externally:

Occupying a fantastic trading position on a picture postcard rural village High Street, to the exterior the premises are well signed and immaculately presented and are situated in generous surrounding grounds.

The grounds currently feature a substantial private patrons’ car park which may comfortably accommodate up to 40 vehicles and a charming, well maintained and furnished covered patio terrace trading area providing approximately 30 additional external dining covers in good weather, together with a private service yard with separate access for deliveries and outbuildings consisting of an attached general storeroom.

*We are further informed that the Inn’s excellent dedicated website is to be included in the sale price, further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price