FREEHOLD VILLAGE HOTEL/PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT IN THE CAIRNGORMS

Impressive detached stone-built landmark character property in large grounds * Offers 25 spacious & mostly en-suite guest rooms * Excellent year-round trade * Delightful tourist village setting on the famous"Malt Whisky Trail" T/o £120,000PA * Extensive & extremely well fitted free house bar/dining & games facilities * Comes with 2-bed private accommodation * Lots of further potential in wonderful lifestyle setting * Priced for quick genuine reluctant sale * VAST inventory of fixtures & fittings included * Viewing highly recommended REF 1128

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position overlooking the picturesque main central square of the charming village of Tomintoul with its eclectic mix of Victorian and Georgian architecture.

Reputed to be the “highest village in the Scottish Highlands”, the village is situated on the main A939 on the slopes of the dramatic Cairngorm Mountains, with a considerable volume of year-round additional tourist trade generated by its position on the famous “Malt Whiskey Trail”, including the nearby Glenlivet Distillery (approximately 7 miles) in a delightful rural area of Morayshire.

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

This old established hostelry currently primarily offers a high standard of traditional bed, breakfast and optional evening meal hotel accommodation in its twenty-five spacious single, double, twin and family-sized guest rooms, all of which boast fully fitted private en-suite facilities, with the exception of two ground-floor rooms with excellent access for the elderly and physically impaired, which share a fully disabled compliant bathroom/WC.

“The Richmond Arms Hotel” has also become an important focal point of the local, close-knit community in the course of many years’ successful trading by providing all the extremely well fitted and appointed free house licensed bar and games facilities associated with an establishment of this kind and is widely renowned both for its truly vast range of malt whiskies, and for its full and varied menu of classic pub meals, snacks, regularly changing “blackboard specials” and traditional hearty 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 a charming and attractively furnished dedicated dining area which may accommodate up to fifty covers in style and comfort, with additional general bar and external covers also available if required.

The hotel is additionally a popular local venue for regular live televised sporting events and music and comedy entertainment evenings and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to considerable further development of its non-resident bar and dining trade in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, both through its own informative dedicated website and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already very respectable levels of turnover it is achieving in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of four full-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Dating back to the mid-19th century, this substantial and impressive THREE-STOREY freehold stone-built landmark character property has been sympathetically converted and modernised over the years whilst retaining many attractive features including a wealth of exposed original timberwork and stonework, wood panelling, open fireplaces and stained glass.

The premises provide extremely well fitted internal business accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance into an impressive and welcoming reception foyer area with feature open original timber staircase access to the upper floors and a prominent, fully fitted service desk with telephone and full complement of payment and modern online booking and business management systems.

The reception area, in turn, affords easy access through to the main public lounge and sports bar area with large, wall-mounted TV screens for live televised sporting events, pool table, dartboard and good mix of loose and fixed upholstered furnishings, which houses a prominent, fully fitted and timber-built free-of-tie licensed servery with full range of optics, draught pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display and storage shelving and electronic till/food ordering point etc.

Further ancillary accommodation to the bar area consists of all the usual separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers.

Accessed directly from the bar area, or by means of its own separate entrance, the ground floor premises also incorporate a charming and attractively furnished dedicated dining area with its own, fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery, which may comfortably accommodate up to 50 covers.

The restaurant area also feature its own separate male and female washroom/WC facilities allowing it to operate independently from the bar area, and is served by a fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system housing ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area, heated food pass 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 made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of a good-sized general dry good store and consisting of a fully fitted and equipped utility/laundry room, together with a fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar/bottle store with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

To the ground floor the property also provides a high standard of hotel guest accommodation with excellent access for the elderly and physically impaired, which comprises :-

Room 1 – a standard twin or double bedroom
Room 2 – a standard twin or double bedroom

Both the ground floor bedrooms are served by a fully fitted and disabled compliant shared bathroom/WC.

Accessed by means of a feature open original timber staircase from the ground-floor reception area, to the FIRST FLOOR a landing area affords access to further attractively furnished and presented hotel guest accommodation, which comprises :-

Room 3 – a family/super-king with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 4 – a single room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 5 – a twin or double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 6 – a family/super-king with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 7 – a twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 8 – a single room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 9 – a single/twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 10 – a double/twin bedded room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 11 – a twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 12 – a double/twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 14 – a double/family room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 15 – a single/twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 16 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities

To the SECOND FLOOR, the premises provide further excellent hotel guest accommodation which comprises:-

Room 17 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 18 – a single/small double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 19 – a double/twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 20 – a twin room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 21 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 22 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 23 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 24 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 25 – a twin/double room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
Room 26 – a family/super-king room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities

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

*It should be noted that the property currently also includes two additional bedrooms and a bathroom employed as private owners’ accommodation.

The property also enjoys the benefit of central heating, with Propane gas employed for cooking purposes, and we are further informed that it meets with all the required fire safety regulations.

Externally:

Occupying a stunning and highly visible trading position overlooking the main village square, to the exterior the premises are well signed and attractively presented and are situated in generous surrounding grounds, which we are advised extend to approximately 0.25 acres.

The grounds currently feature a small private car park for approximately 10 vehicles, together with well maintained public beer garden and service yard areas and outbuildings consisting of a secure bicycle store, together with a private garage/workshop.

For further information, why not visit the business’ excellent dedicated website at:-

www.richmondarmstomintoul.co.uk

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