TOWN CENTRE POST OFFICE & STATIONERS WITH FAMILY APARTMENT ON DALBEATTIE HIGH STREET

Old established community store offering wide range of traditional Post Office services from extremely well fitted detached stone-built landmark character premises with excellent year-round trade on historic tourist town centre High Street. Comes with charming & spacious 3-bed family apartment & HUGE scope for retail expansion & extended hours etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with secure new lease available & early viewing essential REF 2684

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position on the picturesque main central High Street of the beautiful and historic town of Dalbeattie, which lies at the junction of the A745 to Castle Douglas (approximately 6 kilometres) and the A711 to Dumfries (approximately 19 kilometres) on the famous Urr Water in a delightful rural area of Dumfries and Galloway with a high volume of year-round tourist activity.

We are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire the valuable leasehold 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 store has become an important focal point of the local community in the course of very many years’ highly successful trading by providing an extremely useful range of traditional Post Office services for local residents including postage, pensions, benefits, passports, currency exchange, travel insurance, motor vehicle taxing, international money transfers and personal banking etc.

The Post Office services naturally generate considerable extra trade for a highly complementary retail operation of an extensive selection of market-leading greetings cards and stationery, over-the-counter news, confectionery and tobacco lines, general household goods and toiletries, gift ideas, soft toys, ladies’ fashion accessories and associated sundries, all displayed to its best advantage in a bright, spacious and secure customer service area, which also holds a valuable National Lottery and ATM cash machine franchises.

“Dalbeattie Post Office” also provides a popular and highly efficient mobile Post Office service for customers in outlying areas and operates from premises of a size which would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to still further expansion of the retail products currently offered.

The business would also benefit by operating considerably extended retail hours, particularly at weekends, in order to improve upon the already impressive levels of turnover it is achieving in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a team of four experienced and motivated shop 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 scrupulously maintained THREE STOREY leasehold detached, stone-built landmark character premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises a broad, inviting and glazed, double-fronted public entrance with disabled access directly off the High Street.

The main entrance leads directly into a bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, “walk round” retail sales and customer service area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and tiled flooring throughout for easy cleaning, which houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display furniture and shelving for a wide range of premium quality goods with extensive periodical and greetings cards racking, carousel display units, glass-fronted and refrigerated soft drinks display unit, and ATM cash machine and a prominent and a fully fitted general point of sale counter with confectionery and sundry displays, tobacco gantry, electronic till point and National Lottery terminal.

The main public area also features a dedicated Post Office department housing a fully fitted and equipped Post Office counter with full complement of parcel weighing, credit card payment and international money transfer facilities, 2 x computerised serving positions and a fully furnished and computerised back office area with telephone and full range of modern, industry-specific business management systems.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of all the usual washroom/WC facilities, together with separate secure doorway access to the rear and descending staircase access down to a large and dry, full-height BASEMENT LEVEL employed for general storage purposes.

The business premises also enjoy the added security benefits of CCTV monitoring and a full Post Office approved alarm system.

Accessed by means of its own separate self-contained entrance and staircase from ground-floor level, to the FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private living accommodation with well maintained fitted carpets throughout.

The accommodation is arranged over two floors and consists of a spacious lounge with separate dining room 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 three good-sized double bedrooms and a fully fitted family bathroom/WC.

The property also enjoys the benefit of double glazing, in addition to full mains, gas, electricity and water supplies.

Externally:

Occupying a fantastic trading position among other independent operators on the picture postcard main central High Street of the charming and historic year-round tourist town of Dalbeattie Dumfries and Galloway, to the front the business premises are well signed and attractively presented and afford ample and inviting, double-fronted display window space onto a good-sized forecourt area with ornamental perimeter railings and gated access directly off the High Street.

The premises also afford side driveway access to a large private service yard area to the rear providing unrestricted off-road parking facilities for approximately four vehicles.

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