TOWN CENTRE FREE OF TIE PUBLIC HOUSE IN EAST AYRSHIRE

Old established hub of community life with excellent year-round regular & -passing trade operating from stone-built character premises with well fitted bar/games facilities on high footfall town centre main street. Comes with stylish & spacious self-contained 2-bed private apartment & scope for extended hours & online marketing etc in excellent commercial location. Sensibly priced for genuine sale after many successful years trading in same hands with secure new lease available & viewing highly recommended REF 1791

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position in the small town of Galston, which lies at the junction of the A719 and main A71 to the nearby town of Kilmarnock (approximately 4 miles) in the delightful semi-rural Irvine Valley area of East Ayrshire.

We are delighted to present this outstanding opportunity to acquire a thriving income producing home of real quality and 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 community in the course of very many years’ successful trading by providing all the welcoming and extremely well fitted traditional free-of-tie licensed bar and games facilities associated with an establishment of this kind, and is home to a number of local indoor sports teams.

“The Golden Lion” is also a major local venue for regular live televised sporting events and music entertainment evenings and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard 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 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 some fourteen successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a team of seven experienced and motivated 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, TWO-STOREY stone-built leasehold character premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance directly off Titchfield Street into the main, welcoming and deceptively spacious public lounge bar with well maintained fitted carpets, good mix of loose and fixed upholstered furnishings, large wall-mounted TV screens for live televised sporting events and a fully equipped open sports bar area with pool table, dartboard and gaming machine.

The main public area also features a large and 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.

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 the property provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private living accommodation in a stylish apartment, which we understand is currently unoccupied.

The accommodation consists of a bright and spacious lounge with feature laminate wooden flooring and a fully fitted domestic kitchen/breakfast room housing ample work surfaces, quality wall and base storage units, fitted sink unit and a full range of built-in appliances, together with two good-sized bedrooms and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

The living accommodation also affords feature glazed double French door access onto a large, impressive and well maintained decked private flat-roof patio terrace.

The property also enjoys the benefit of mains gas and electricity power supplies, 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 front the premises are well signed and presented, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The premises also incorporate a public smoking area and private service yard to the rear 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