SEASIDE VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT NEAR TORQUAY

Old established hub of close-knit community life with excellent year-round local trade & high summer uplift operating from charming character premises with wealth of features & extremely well fitted & dining facilities in select seaside village locality. Comes with extensive 5-bed private accommodation & lots of further potential in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with early viewing strongly advised REF 1566

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position within easy strolling distance (approximately 1,000 yards) of beautiful sandy beaches in the very select seaside village and resort of Babbacombe, which lies on the busy main A379 tourist route on the outskirts of the premier year-round holiday resort of Torquay on Devon’s delightful and ever-popular “English Riviera”.

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

This old established hostelry has become an important focal point of the local, close-knit community in the course of several centuries of highly successful trading by providing all the welcoming and extremely well fitted traditional licensed bar facilities associated with an establishment of this kind.

The Inn is additionally locally renowned both for its extensive choice of premium-quality spirits and for its full and varied menu of classic, home-cooked pub meals, snacks, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, indulgent desserts and hearty traditional roast Sunday lunches.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its fully equipped commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest, locally-sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a charming and attractively furnish dedicated dining area which may accommodate up to fifty covers in style and comfort, with additional general bar and external covers also available if required.

“The Masons Arms” is also a major local venue for regular live televised sporting events and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to considerable further development of its food trade, the possible introduction of live music entertainment evenings, possibly employing some of the extensive private accommodation for guest letting purposes, and to operating significantly extended weekday hours in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a 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 twenty successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of two full-time and two part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

These substantial and well maintained TWO-STOREY leasehold landmark character premises date back several centuries and have been sympathetically converted and modernised over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

The premises provide extremely well fitted internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises a short flight of three stone steps up to an inviting public vestibule entrance directly off Babbacombe Road (A379) into welcoming and attractively appointed interconnecting public and lounge bar areas.

The main bar area feature well maintained fitted carpets, an original open working fireplace, a wealth of exposed ceiling timbers, good mix of loose and fixed upholstered furnishings, wall-mounted satellite TV screens for live televised sporting events and a prominent and fully fitted, timber-built centralised free-of-tie licensed servery with full range of optics, draught pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display, storage shelving and electronic till/food ordering point serving both bar areas.

The main bar areas, in turn, afford easy access through to a charming dedicated restaurant with wealth of exposed original timber and stonework and attractive furnishings for approximately 50 covers, which is served by a fully fitted and equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system housing ample 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 fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar/bottle store with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

Accessed by means of its own separate, self-contained entrance and staircase from ground-floor level, to the FIRST FLOOR this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private living accommodation, which consists of a spacious lounge 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 four good-sized double bedrooms and a fully fitted family bathroom/WC.

Further versatile accommodation to the first floor consists of an additional, smart and versatile one-bed studio apartment ideal for additional private, staff or letting purposes.

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

Externally:

Occupying a fantastic and highly visible trading position on a major year-round coastal tourist route into the premier resort to Torquay, to the front the premises are well signed and attractively presented, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The property also features a delightful, extremely well maintained and furnished paved patio terrace trading area to the rear providing additional external covers in good weather.

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