THRIVING POST OFFICE & LICENSED CONVENIENCE STORE WITH PRIVATE APARTMENT IN BIRCOTES

Outstanding opportunity to acquire thriving community store offering excellent range of market-leading products & services from secure & well fitted parade premises with high volume of year-round regular & passing trade in prime suburban main road position. Comes with smart 2-bed private apartment & scope for extended hours etc in unopposed location. Very sensibly priced for quick genuine sale with valuable inventory of quality shop fittings included & viewing highly recommended REF 3130

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position on a small parade serving the densely populated former mining town of Bircotes, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A614, A631, A638 and A1M junction 34 etc.) near Bawtry, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire on the South Yorkshire border.

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 very well established store has become an important focal point of the local community in the course of many years’ highly successful trading by providing an extremely useful range of traditional Post Office services for local residents including postage, pensions, benefits, electronic utility payments and personal banking etc.

The Post Office services naturally generate considerable extra trade for a highly complementary retail operation of a wide selection of market-leading daily shopping essentials including general convenience grocery items, confectionery, stationery, greetings cards, tobacco lines, associated sundries and a range of traditional beers, wines and spirits, all displayed to its very best advantage in a bright, welcoming and secure customer service area.

“Bircotes Post Office” also holds a valuable, commission-earning ATM cash machine franchise and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to still further expansion of the retail products and services currently offered.

The business would also benefit greatly by operating significantly extended evening retail hours 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 small, experienced and motivated team of one full-time and two 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 well maintained TWO STOREY leasehold parade premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting and part-glazed public entrance directly off Scrooby Road into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open-plan retail sales and customer service area with diffused fluorescent lighting.

The main customer service area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display racking, shelving and furniture, in addition to various glass-fronted and refrigerated display units, greetings cards racking and a prominent and fully fitted general point-of-sale counter with off licence section, confectionery and sundry displays, tobacco gantry, electronic till point and an adjoining and fully equipped open “combi” Post Office counter with 1 x computerised serving position and full complement of parcel weighing and credit card payment facilities.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation to the ground floor consists of all the usual washroom/WC facilities, together with a good-sized general storeroom with separate delivery door access to the rear.

Accessed by means of an internal staircase from ground-floor level, to the FIRST FLOOR the property provides an equally high standard of attractively presented and appointed private living accommodation in a smart apartment consisting of a good-sized lounge 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 appliances, together with one master bedroom, a further standard double bedroom and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

The first-floor accommodation also affords access to a fully boarded LOFT SPACE with development potential subject, of course, to the obtaining of any necessary consents.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of gas central heating and double glazing throughout, in addition to the added safety and security benefits of CCTV monitoring and a full Post Office approved alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and locally unopposed trading position set back from a busy suburban through road, to the front the business premises are well signed and attractively presented and afford ample and inviting display window space with a built-in ATM cash machine onto a large and well maintained communal paved forecourt area providing private unrestricted off-road parking facilities.

The premises also enjoy the use of separate delivery access to the rear.

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