CHARMING FREE OF TIE VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT NEAR DONCASTER

Thriving & TripAdvisor highly rated hub of community life with excellent year-round regular & passing trade operating from charming detached character premises in large grounds with superbly fitted bar/dining facilities on busy village through road. Comes with spacious 3-bed family apartment & lots of further potential in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with viewing highly recommended REF 2286

The subject premises occupy a very prominent trading position in the large and well populated residential commuter village of Armthorpe, which lies with excellent access both to major road and motorway links (A630, A18 and M18 junction 4 etc.) and to all the many amenities and attractions of the nearby historic Minster and market town of Doncaster with its world-famous racecourse, in the Don Valley area of South Yorkshire.

We are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire a thriving income producing home of exceptional quality and real 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 very many years’ successful trading by providing all the charming, welcoming and superbly fitted traditional licensed bar facilities associated with an establishment of this kind.

“The Horse & Groom” is also widely renowned for its full and varied all-day menu of classic home cooked pub meals, snacks, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, hearty traditional roast Sunday lunches and indulgent homemade desserts.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its extensively equipped commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest locally sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of attractively furnished and interconnecting traditional and glazed conservatory dining areas which combine to accommodate up to eighty covers in style and comfort, with numerous additional external covers also available in good weather.

The inn is additionally a popular 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 the possible introduction of live music entertainment evenings in order to exploit year-round local demand.

The business would also benefit 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 impressive levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of some twenty-four highly successful years’ trading in the hands of the current director, with the aid of an experienced and motivated team of five full-time and a pool of part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these charming, substantial and impressive TWO STOREY detached leasehold landmark character premises have been sympathetically converted, modernised and extended over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

The premises provide outstanding and “TripAdvisor” highly rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance directly off Nutwell Lane into a welcoming public lounge bar with wealth of exposed original ceiling timbers, dartboard area, well maintained furnishings and a prominent, fully fitted and timber-built 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.

Boasting well maintained fitted carpets throughout, the main bar area includes all the usual separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers and affords easy access through to charming and attractively furnished traditional and glazed conservatory dining extension areas which combined to accommodate approximately 80 covers and include their own, fully fitted licensed servery and additional separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers.

The dining areas also afford separate access to the gardens and car park and are served by a large, 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, industry standard stainless-steel catering appliances.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of a good-sized general dry goods store, together with 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 in a charming, family-sized apartment.

The accommodation consists of a spacious lounge and a fully fitted domestic kitchen/breakfast room housing ample work surfaces, wall and base storage units, fitted sink unit and a full range of appliances, together with two good-sized double bedrooms, a further single bedroom and a fully fitted family bathroom/WC.

The property also employs 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 very prominent trading position in the well populated residential commuter village of Armthorpe, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, to the exterior the premises are well signed and immaculately presented and feature generous grounds.

The grounds incorporate a substantial private patrons’ car park which may comfortably accommodate up to sixty vehicles, in addition to extensive, well maintained and furnished enclosed patio and lawned public beer gardens with perimeter fencing, which provide numerous external dining covers in good weather and include a fully equipped children’s play area.

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