FREEHOLD PUBLIC HOUSE & FUNCTION VENUE IN ARMADALE TOWN CENTRE

Outstanding opportunity to acquire popular hub of community life * Taking £2,700PW from large detached single-storey premises * Spacious bar/games & function facilities fitted to high refurbished specs * Busy town centre Main Street position * Excellent year-round regular & passing trade * HUGE scope for food etc in prime location * Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands * Extensive inventory of quality fixtures & fittings included * Viewing highly recommended REF 1080

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position on the busy central commercial Main Street of the vibrant former mining town of Armadale, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A801, A800, A706 and M8 junction 4 etc.) near Bathgate, in the West Lothian region of central Scotland.

We are delighted to present this outstanding opportunity to acquire the valuable freehold rights to a thriving commercial proposition of real quality and further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This long established, purpose-built hostelry has become an important focal point of the local community in the course of many years’ successful trading by providing all the spacious and extremely well fitted traditional free house licensed bar and games facilities associated with an establishment of this kind, and is home to a number of local indoor sports teams.

“The Cavalier Inn” is also a popular venue for all manner of private parties and functions accommodated in its versatile and self-contained lounge bar with full range of modern in-house sound and lighting systems, with hot and cold in-house buffet catering undertaken in its fully equipped working kitchen.

The Inn is additionally a major local venue for regular live televised sporting events, karaoke nights and live music entertainment evenings and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to the possible introduction of food trade in order to exploit year-round local demand.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a far more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, particularly with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of more than thirty successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a small, experienced and motivated team of four staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Fitted to high industry specifications throughout, thanks to a recent and extensive programme of refurbishment undertaken at great expense by the current proprietor, these substantial and extremely well maintained, detached freehold single-storey commercial premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance into the main, spacious and welcoming public bar.

The public bar area boasts well maintained fitted carpets, stylish mix of loose and fixed upholstered furnishings, large wall-mounted satellite TV screens for live televised sport events, a fully equipped sports bar area with pool table, dartboard and gaming machines and a large, fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery with full range of optics, draught pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display and storage shelving and electronic till point etc.

Further ancillary accommodation to the public bar area consists of all the usual separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers, with ladies’ facilities having been adapted for the use of the disabled.

Accessed directly from the public bar, or by means of its own separate self-contained entrance, the premises also feature a spacious and versatile lounge bar and function room with well maintained feature tartan carpets, buffet service area with timber flooring, track spotlighting, feature suspended chandelier style light fittings and a DJ booth area with full complement of modern in-house sound and lighting systems.

The lounge bar and function room also incorporates its own fully fitted and equipped free-of-tie licensed servery and additional separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers, allowing the area to operate independently from the public bar, and affords easy access through to a fully fitted and equipped working kitchen housing ample work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area and a full range of well maintained appliances, which is currently employed solely for buffet catering purposes for functions, but would naturally afford excellent potential for the introduction of regular food trade.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation consists of a fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar/bottle store with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

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

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding trading position on a high footfall town centre Main Street, to the exterior the premises are well signed and presented and incorporate a good-sized private patrons’ car park, in addition to a useful private service yard area with separate access for deliveries.

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