STUNNING FREEHOLD VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT NEAR HUNTINGDON

Fantastic opportunity to acquire very old established hostelry operating from stunning detached Grade 2 listed period property with wealth of features & extremely well fitted bar/dining & games facilities in generous grounds on main road through picture postcard rural village. Comes with smart 2-bed private apartment & attached 2-bed cottage & HUGE scope for extended hours & development of food etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with extensive inventory of high quality fixtures & fittings included & viewing absolutely essential REF 2543

The subject property occupies a stunning trading position set back from the B660 through the picture postcard village of Old Weston, which lies close to the busy main A14 both to the national motorway network (A1M) and to all the many amenities and attractions of the historic year-round tourist market town of Huntingdon, in a delightful and affluent rural area of Cambridgeshire.

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

“The Swan” is also widely renowned both for its CAMRA award-winning fine, cask-conditioned real ales and for its full and varied menu of classic home-cooked pub meals, traditional roast Sunday lunches, regularly changing “blackboard specials” and desserts.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its extensively equipped commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest, locally sourced produce and currently served on Wednesday and Friday evenings and Sunday lunchtimes only in a delightful and attractively furnished dedicated dining area which may accommodate up to twenty covers in style and comfort, with additional general bar and external covers also available if required.

The Inn is additionally home to a number of local indoor sports teams and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with truly vast scope for continued growth, and a return to previously much higher levels of turnover, not least with regard to considerable further development of its food trade and to operating hugely extended 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 more than thirty successful years’ trading in the hands of the three current partners, currently without staff, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

THE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these substantial, charming and impressive TWO STOREY Grade II listed freehold detached landmark character premises provide outstanding and “TripAdvisor” highly rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance into a spacious and welcoming public lounge bar with wealth of exposed original timber work, well maintained fitted carpets, wood-burning stove in original stone inglenook fireplace and well maintained furnishings for approximately 20 covers, which also houses a large, 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 etc.

The main bar area, in turn, affords easy access to a large and fully equipped adjoining games room with solid timber flooring, pool table, dartboard, traditional Northamptonshire skittles table and TV in original stone inglenook fireplace, together with a cosy adjoining snug bar area and an attractively furnished dedicated 20-cover dining area served by a fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system, feature solid timber flooring and tiled walls for easy cleaning.

The main kitchen houses ample 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 including 4-burner oven and hob, Salamander grill, deep-fat fryer and various refrigerator/freezer storage units etc., all of which we understand is to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

The ground-floor premises naturally also incorporate all the usual separate male and female washroom/WC for customers, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar/bottle store with a refrigerated barrel storeroom with a new, recently fitted cooling and separate access for deliveries.

To the FIRST FLOOR this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides a high standard of attractively furnished and appointed private owners’ accommodation in a smart apartment consisting of a good-sized lounge and two double bedrooms, in addition to a further room employed for storage purposes and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

THE ATTACHED COTTAGE

This extensive freehold proposition also features a charming attached TWO STOREY cottage-style residence providing further attractively presented and appointed private living accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, consists of a good-sized lounge and a fully fitted domestic kitchen housing ample work surfaces, wall and base storage units, fitted sink unit and a full range of appliances, together with a separate, fully fitted bathroom/WC.

Further private living accommodation to the first floor consists of two good-sized double bedrooms.

The entire property also enjoys the benefit of double glazing and an oil-fired central heating system which is served by a new, recently installed oil tank, and we are further informed that it meets with all the required fire safety regulations.

Externally:

Occupying a stunning trading position set back from a busy year-round tourist route through a delightful rural area of Cambridgeshire, to the exterior the premises are well signed and immaculately presented and are situated in generous surrounding grounds which we are advised extend to approximately 0.5 acres in total.

The grounds currently feature substantial front and rear private patrons’ car parking areas which may comfortably accommodate up to 20 vehicles, in addition to charming, well maintained and furnished patio and lawned public beer gardens providing numerous additional external covers in good weather and a private service yard area with access for deliveries.

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