CHARMING VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT NEAR ELY

Super opportunity to acquire old established hub of community life with excellent year-round regular & passing trade operating from delightful detached stone-built character premises with extremely well fitted free-of-tie bar/dining facilities & wealth of features on picture postcard Fenlands village Main Street. Comes with charming 3-bed private accommodation & scope for extended hours etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same family hands with early viewing strongly advised REF 1550

The subject premises occupy a fantastic and highly visible corner trading position on the picturesque central Main Street of the very select village of Little Downham, which lies on the B1411 tourist route both to the main A10, and to all the many amenities and attractions of the nearby historic cathedral city of Ely (approximately 3 miles) in a delightful and affluent rural area of the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire with a high volume of year-round tourist activity.

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

This old established and “TripAdvisor” highly rated, family-run 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 welcoming and extremely well fitted traditional free-of-tie licensed bar facilities associated with an establishment of this kind.

“The Plough” is also widely renowned both for its regularly changing fine, cask-conditioned real ales and for its full and varied menu of classic a la carte Thai cuisine and accompaniments.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its fully equipped commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest, locally sourced and authentic imported produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a small, but attractively furnished dining area which may accommodate up to thirty covers in style and comfort, with additional external covers also available if required.

The Inn is also the host venue for a very popular annual beer festival each September and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to operating significantly extended 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 some seventeen successful years’ trading in the hands of the current husband and wife proprietors, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of three full-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

These charming and well maintained, TWO-STOREY detached and Grade II listed, stone-built landmark character premises date back to the early Victorian period and have been sympathetically converted and modernised over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

The premises provide extremely well fitted and “TripAdvisor” highly rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance directly off Main Street (B1411) into the main, charming and welcoming, open-plan and split-level public bar with wealth of exposed original brick and timber work, wood-burning stove in original fireplace, mixed tiled and carpeted flooring, well maintained furnishings and a 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 and electronic till/food ordering point.

The main bar area also affords open and split-level access to an attractively furnished dining area with well maintained furnishings for approximately 30 covers and easy access through to the main, 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.

To the FIRST FLOOR, this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private living accommodation which consists of two good-sized double bedrooms and a further single bedroom, in addition to a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

The property also enjoys the benefit of gas central and double glazing, and we are further informed that it meets with all the required fire safety regulations.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and highly visible trading position on the busy main B1411 tourist route through the beautiful village of Little Downham in the affluent and historic Fenlands district of Cambridgeshire, to the front the premises are well signed and attractively presented and incorporate a small forecourt trading area furnished with picnic-style benches and tables, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The property also incorporates a small off-road parking area for three vehicles to the rear, in addition to a covered and fully furnished smoking shelter and access to an enclosed and well maintained rear lawned public beer garden providing additional external dining covers in good weather, which we understand is also the venue for a popular annual beer festival.

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