Vacant Commercial & Residental Property

Super opportunity to acquire thriving hub of community life offering good range of products & services from secure & extremely well fitted parade premises with regular passing trade, spacious self-contained 3-bed family home in densely populated residential satellite town. Comes with adjoining freehold beauty studio in excellent location priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with extensive inventory of fixtures & fittings included & early viewing essential REF 1157

The subject property occupies a prominent and highly visible trading position among other complementary independent operators on a busy parade serving the densely populated residential satellite town of Billingham, which lies with excellent access both to major road links (A19 and A689) and to the nearby centres of Stockton-On-Tees and Middlesbrough, in the Teesside quarter of Cleveland.

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

This long established community store currently primarily conducts an extremely popular retail operation of an extensive selection of traditional news, confectionery and tobacco lines, including an excellent choice of traditional loose sweets, in addition to supporting a good number of local, morning-only news delivery rounds.

The store also stocks a good selection of daily shopping essentials, fresh bought-in bakery and dairy products, snack foods, hot and cold drinks, greetings cards, toys, stationery and associated sundries, all displayed to its best advantage in a bright, secure and welcoming five-star hygiene rated customer service area.

“Mill Lane News” also holds a valuable National Lottery 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 currently offered and to further development of its local delivery services, particularly for elderly customers in outlying areas.

The business would also benefit greatly by operating considerably extended retail hours, particularly at weekends, in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of some eighteen successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a small team of three shop staff, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

These substantial and extremely well fitted TWO-STOREY freehold parade premises provide outstanding and highly functional 5-Star hygiene rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting and part-glazed, single-fronted public entrance directly off Mill Lane into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious retail sales and customer service area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and feature tiled flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The main customer service area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding purpose- built display furniture and shelving, in addition to extensive periodical and greetings cards racking, 2 x large, glass-fronted and refrigerated soft drinks and dairy display units, a hot drinks vending machine and a prominent, fully fitted and part-glazed point-of-sale counter area with confectionery and sundry displays, including traditional loose sweets jars, tobacco gantry, electronic till point, weighing facilities and National Lottery terminal.

Further ancillary accommodation to the retail premises consists of a good-sized general dry goods store, together with all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

*Accessed by means of its own separate self-contained entrance, it should be noted that this extensive freehold proposition also incorporates an adjoining, well fitted and equipped nails, tanning and beauty studio, which we understand is currently let to an independent operator to produce a useful supplementary income of £50 per week, but which would naturally afford attractive private business expansion options if required.

The business premises also enjoy the added security benefit of a full alarm system.

Accessed by means of its own separate self-contained entrance, to the ground floor the property also provides a good standard of attractively presented and appointed private owners’ accommodation, which consists of a fully fitted domestic kitchen/breakfast room housing ample work surfaces, wall and base storage units, fitted sink unit and a full range of built-in appliances, together with a further room employed for general storage purposes and separate doorway access to the rear.

To the FIRST FLOOR a landing area with built-in linen storage cupboard affords access to further private living accommodation, which consists of an extremely spacious lounge and 2 x large double-bedrooms, together with a further smaller double-bedroom and a large, fully fitted family bathroom with separate shower and WC.

The property also enjoys the benefit of gas central heating and double glazing throughout.

Externally:

To the front the business premises are well signed and presented and afford extensive and inviting display window space onto a high footfall suburban thoroughfare, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The premises also incorporate a private service yard and garden area to the rear providing private unrestricted off-road parking facilities for three vehicles, with outbuildings consisting of a private garage and a separate “lean to” store.

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