POPULAR PUBLIC HOUSE & FUNCTION VENUE WITH ROOMS IN HAMPSHIRE

Super opportunity to acquire thriving hub of community life with excellent year-round regular trade currently operating on wet sales only from impressive landmark character premises with extremely well fitted bar/games/kitchen/function room facilities & 3 lovely en-suite guest rooms on vibrant coastal town centre outskirts. Comes with 2-bed private apartment & HUGE scope for food etc in prime location sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with viewing highly recommended REF 1195

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible corner trading position on the densely populated outskirts of the vibrant satellite harbour town of Gosport with its regular ferries to the Isle of Wight and the nearby historic city of Portsmouth, which lies on the main A32 to Fareham and the national motorway network (M27 junction 11) on the western side of Portsmouth harbour, on the delightful and ever-popular Hampshire coast.

We are delighted to present this marvellous opportunity to acquire a thriving income producing home of real quality and further potential, which you are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This old established hostelry has become an important focal point of the local community in the course of very many years’ successful trading by providing all the extremely well fitted traditional licenced bar and games facilities associated with an establishment of this kind, and is particularly renowned for its excellent choice of fine, cask-conditioned real ales.

“The Clarence Tavern” is also a major local venue for regular live televised sporting events, music entertainment evenings and all manner of private parties accommodated in the property’s spacious and versatile dedicated function room.

The Tavern additionally provides a high standard of bed and breakfast accommodation in its three, attractively furnished and fully en-suite guest rooms 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 the possible re-introduction of food trade in order to exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

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

These substantial and extremely well fitted THREE-STOREY leasehold landmark character premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance directly off Clarence Road into the main, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open-plan public bar with feature solid timber flooring throughout for easy cleaning, part-timber panelled walls, large wall mounted TV screens for live televised sporting events, jukebox, good mix of well maintained loose and fixed upholstered furnishings and a sports bar area with pool table, dartboard and gaming machine.

The main public area also houses a large and fully fitted, timber-built centralised licensed servery with full range of optics, draught and hand-pulled cask pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display and storage shelving and electronic till point and affords easy access through to a spacious, versatile and fully furnished dedicated function room with solid timber flooring, feature high timber-framed vaulted ceiling and stage area for entertainment purposes with full complement of modern in-house sound and lighting systems.

The ground-floor premises also incorporate a small, fully fitted and equipped preparation/washing up kitchen area, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of all the usual separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers and descending staircase access down to a fully fitted and equipped two-roomed trade beer cellar/bottle store at basement level with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

Further excellent business accommodation to the FIRST FLOOR consists of 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, built-in appliances, which we understand is currently employed solely for private and bed and breakfast purposes and would naturally afford excellent potential for the re-introduction of full food trade if required.

The first-floor premises currently also offer a high standard of attractively presented and appointed bed and breakfast guest accommodation, which comprises:-

3 x double-rooms with fully fitted private en-suite facilities.

All the guest rooms additionally boast colour TV and the usual complimentary hospitality facilities.

To the first floor the property also provides an equally high standard of private living accommodation, which consists of a spacious lounge and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

Further private living accommodation to the SECOND FLOOR consists of two good-sized double bedrooms.

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 an outstanding corner trading positon within easy strolling distance of the Portsmouth Ferry and all the many amenities and attractions of the vibrant harbour town of Gosport in Hampshire, to the exterior the premises are well signed and presented and incorporate a good-sized private patrons’ car park which may comfortably accommodate up to 12 vehicles, in addition to well maintained and furnished patio and lawned public beer gardens providing additional external covers in good weather and including a purpose built barbecue area.

For further information, why not visit the business’ dedicated website at:-

www.clarencetavern.co.uk

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