IMPRESSIVE PUBLIC HOUSE/RESTAURANT & HOTEL IN CHATTERIS TOWN CENTRE

Super opportunity to acquire old established hostelry with excellent year-round regular & 'walk in' trade offering spacious & extremely well fitted bar/games/ dining/function facilities & 8 well furnished guest rooms from impressive landmark character premises with large rear grounds & car park on historic market town centre High Street. Comes with smart & versatile 2-bed private/staff apartment & lots of further potential in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with early viewing strongly advised REF 2947

The subject premises occupy a fantastic and highly visible trading position among other independent operators on the picturesque main central commercial High Street of the vibrant and historic year-round tourist market town of Chatteris, which lies at the junction of the A141 and A142 in a delightful and affluent semi-rural quarter of the Fenlands district of Cambridgeshire.

We are delighted to present this marvellous 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 very old established hostelry has become an important focal point of the local community in the course of more than three centuries of highly successful trading by providing all the charming, welcoming and extremely well fitted traditional licensed bar and games facilities associated with an establishment of this kind, and is a popular venue for regular live televised sporting events.

The inn is additionally locally renowned both for its fine, cask conditioned real ale and for its full and varied menu of classic home-cooked full English breakfasts, pub meals, snacks, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, indulgent desserts and hearty carvery roast Sunday lunches.

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 an attractively furnished and appointed dedicated restaurant area which may accommodate up to thirty-covers in style and comfort, with additional general bar covers also available if required.

“The George Hotel” also offers comfortable and affordable bed, breakfast and optional evening meal hotel accommodation in its eight well furnished en-suite and standard guest rooms and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to exploiting the full potential of the property’s versatile dedicated first-floor function room.

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 almost twenty successful years’ trading in the hands of the current director, with the aid of an experienced and motivated team of six full-time and six part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Fitted to high industry specifications throughout, these substantial and well maintained THREE STOREY leasehold landmark character premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance directly off the High Street into a charming, spacious and welcoming public bar area.

The public bar area features exposed solid timber and carpeted flooring throughout, a good mix of loose bar and upholstered lounge furnishings, wall-mounted TV screens, gaming machines, pool table area and a prominent and fully fitted, timber-built licensed servery with overhead suspended lighting system and full range of 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, in turn, affords open, stepped split-level access up to an extremely well appointed dedicated dining area with feature solid timber and carpeted flooring, large wall-mounted specials board, stylish furnishings for approximately 30 covers and access through to a fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system.

The main kitchen houses ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area and a full range of well maintained, industry standard catering appliances, all of which we understand are to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

The ground-floor premises naturally also incorporate all the usual separate male and female washrooms/WC facilities for customers, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a good-sized general dry goods/bottle store and a fully fitted and equipped utility/laundry room, together with a fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

Further excellent business accommodation to the FIRST FLOOR consists of a large, versatile and fully furnished dedicated function room.

To the first floor this wonderful lifestyle opportunity currently also provides versatile living accommodation in a smart apartment ideal for private or staff purposes, which 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 two double bedrooms and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

Arranged over FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR levels, the property also provides comfortable, well furnished and affordable hotel guest accommodation, which comprises:-

4 x double rooms with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
3 x standard single rooms
1 x standard family-sized room

All the guest rooms additionally boast colour TV and the usual complimentary hospitality facilities.

Further ancillary guest accommodation consists of a fully fitted communal bathroom/WC for the use of the non en-suite rooms.

The property also enjoys the benefit of gas central heating and double glazing throughout, in addition to the added safety benefit of a full fire alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding trading position among other independent operators on a charming tourist market town centre commercial High Street, to the front the premises are well signed and presented.

The property also affords feature internal vehicle archway access with double gates directly off the High Street leading to substantial grounds to the rear, which include a large private patrons’ car park which may comfortably accommodate up to 20 vehicles, in addition to a fully equipped children’s adventure play area and a well maintained and furnished, patio-style public beer garden with large covered area.

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