FREEHOLD VILLAGE BUTCHERS with characterful and spacious 5 bed family home based SOMERSET

A rare opportunity to acquire old established & highly regarded family-run business * Offers premium quality product range * T/o £300,000PA on 4.5 day week * Prosperous village main st trading position * Superbly fitted character premises * High volume of year-round regular & passing trade * Comes with charming & spacious self-contained 5-bed family accommodation * HUGE scope for wholesale trade supplies & extended hours etc in wonderful lifestyle setting * Sensibly priced for genuine sale after many successful years trading in same hands * Viewing highly recommended REF MOB1103

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We are delighted to present this marvellous opportunity to acquire the valuable freehold rights to a thriving, potential high income producing home of exceptional quality and uncommon further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This old established and highly regarded, family-run community store currently primarily conducts an extremely popular sales operation of a wide selection of premium quality, locally sourced and traceable butchery meats, organic poultry, hams and bacon products, all prepared daily in its extensively equipped and five-star hygiene rated in-store commercial catering facilities.

The business also serves an excellent choice of delicatessen-style cooked meats and cheeses, associated savouries, preserves, condiments, local fresh greengrocery produce and artisan ice creams etc., and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to possible expansion into the provision of local home delivery and wholesale catering supplies services 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 products and services, particularly with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and ordering 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 fifteen highly successful years’ trading in the hands of the current husband and wife proprietors, with the aid of just one experienced and motivated full-time assistant who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these charming and extremely well maintained TWO STOREY freehold character premises provide outstanding and highly functional 5-Star hygiene rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting and glazed, single-fronted public entrance directly off West Street into the main, bright, good-sized and welcoming retail sales and customer service area.

The main public area features fully tiled walls and floor throughout for easy cleaning, combined fluorescent strip lighting and spotlighting, a glass-topped ice cream conservator, a Welsh dresser style ambient display unit for preserves and condiments and a substantial and fully fitted, ‘L’ shaped, glass-fronted and refrigerated delicatessen-style food display and serve-over counter for a wide selection of premium quality butchery meats, poultry, cooked meats, cheeses and savouries, with electronic till point, electronic weighing facilities and easy open access through to the main, bright and spacious commercial meat cutting and preparation kitchen.

The main kitchen houses ample stainless steel work surfaces, storage units, a large cutting table area with plastic chopping board and wooden butcher’s block, a fully equipped washing-up kitchen/utility area with fitted sink unit, washing machine, 2 x stainless-steel knee-operated hand wash units and a full range of high quality, industry standard appliances including freestanding industrial mincer, table-top mincer, manual sausage filler, bacon slicer, ham slicer, oven and hob, freestanding and table-top vacuum packers, 2 x sealers, “Avery Berkel” label printer/scale and 3 x large upright refrigerator storage units etc., all of which we understand is to be included in the sale price, along with a fully sign written vehicle and a refrigerated trailer unit, and further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation to the ground floor consists of access to all the usual washroom/WC facilities and separate doorway access to the rear.

Accessed by means of its own separate and fully self-contained entrance, to the GROUND FLOOR this wonderful lifestyle opportunity also provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private owners’ accommodation, which consists of a reception hallway with staircase access to first-floor level.

The reception hallway, in turn, affords easy access through to a spacious lounge and a further reception sitting room area, together with 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 appliances.

To the FIRST FLOOR a landing area affords access to further extremely well appointed private living accommodation, which consists of a master double bedroom with fully fitted private en-suite shower room and four further, good-sized standard double bedrooms, together with a fully fitted family bathroom with bath, washbasin, shower cubicle and separate WC.

*It should be noted that the private accommodation is currently let on a shorthold tenancy agreement to produce a useful supplementary rental income of £850 per calendar month.

The property also enjoys the benefit of double glazing throughout.

Externally:

Occupying a fantastic and highly visible corner trading position with little in the way of direct local competition on a charming rural village main street, to the front the business premises are well signed and attractively presented and afford ample and inviting display window space beneath an eye-catching retractable canopy onto a small pavement trading area employed for additional external display purposes, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The premises also enjoy the use of a large communal off-road parking area to the side, with two parking spaces allocated exclusively to the shop and include a useful private service yard area to the rear with a storage outbuilding housing 2 x large, separate walk-in refrigerator and freezer storage units.

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