VILLAGE POST OFFICE & STORES based COUNTY DURHAM

Taking £12,000 weekly plus Post Office salary. Located in sought after historic village locality. Comes with spacious 3 or 4 bed family accommodation & represents an ideal lifestyle opportunity. Sensibly priced for genuine sale after many successful years trading in same hands with extensive inventory of quality fixtures & fittings included & viewing highly recommended REF MOB1264

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position with little in the way of direct local competition in the historic and well populated village of Haswell (home of the world’s first cable operated lift-shafted coalmine) which lies with excellent access both to major road and motorway links (A182, A19, A690 and A1M junction 62 etc.) and to the nearby centres of Peterlee (approximately 3 miles), Durham (approximately 6 miles) and Sunderland (approximately 9 miles) close to the delightful and dramatic Durham heritage coast in the North East of England.

My Own Business Sales are delighted to present this marvelous opportunity to acquire the valuable freehold rights to a thriving income producing home of real quality and further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This very well established store has become an important focal point of the local, close-knit community in the course of many years’ successful trading by providing an extremely useful range of traditional Post Office services for local residents including postage, pensions, benefits, electronic utility payments, “Euros on Demand”, travel insurance and personal banking etc.

The Post Office services naturally generate considerable extra trade for a highly complementary retail operation of an extensive selection of market-leading daily shopping essentials displayed to their best advantage in a bright, welcoming and secure, mini-supermarket-style customer service area.

The store’s retail products include general and frozen convenience grocery items, fresh bought-in bakery and dairy products, over-the-counter news, confectionery and tobacco lines, greetings cards, general household goods, associated sundries and a range of traditional beers, wines and spirits, with an excellent choice of takeaway hot and cold snacks and beverages also available.

“Haswell Post Office” also holds a valuable National Lottery franchise and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to still further expansion of the retail products currently offered and to the possible introduction of local delivery services, particularly for elderly customers in outlying areas.

The business would also benefit greatly by operating significantly extended evening retail hours in order to improve upon the already impressive levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of some sixteen highly successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of an experienced and motivated team of six shop staff, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

These substantial and well maintained TWO-STOREY freehold terraced premises provide extremely well fitted internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting and part-glazed, single-fronted public entrance with disabled access directly off Front Street East into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, ‘L’ shaped retail sales and customer service area set out in mini-supermarket style with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and tiled flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The main customer service area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose- built display furniture and shelving, in addition to various refrigerated and frozen display cabinets, ample periodical racking, greetings cards carousel display unit, a dedicated off licence section and a prominent, fully fitted general point-of-sale counter area with spirits, confectionery and sundry displays, glazed-and-stainless-steel counter-top hot snack food display unit, tobacco gantry, electronic till point and National Lottery terminal.

The main public area also features a separate, fully fitted and screened Post Office Counter with 1 x computerised serving position and full complement of parcel weighing, credit card payment and electronic utility payment facilities.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of a large main general dry goods store and further smaller storage area, together with all the usual washroom/WC facilities and separate doorway access to the rear.

The business premises also enjoy the added security benefits of steel roller shutters to the main entrance and window, CCTV monitoring and a full Post Office approved alarm system.

To the FIRST FLOOR this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private owners’ accommodation, which consists of a large through lounge/dining room with separate, fully furnished and equipped private business office/study (or additional single bedroom) and a fully fitted domestic kitchen housing ample work surfaces, wall and base storage units, fitted sink unit and a full range of built-in appliances, together with three good-sized double bedrooms and a fully fitted shower room/WC.

The property also enjoys the benefit of central heating and double glazing.

Externally:

To the front the business premises are well signed and presented and afford ample and inviting display window space onto a high footfall village centre thoroughfare, with extensive unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The property also incorporates a large and fully enclosed private service yard area to the rear with gated access and outbuildings consisting of a private garage.

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