FREEHOLD NEWSAGENT & STORE - 3 STOREY WITH LIVING ACCOMMODATION IN ACCRINGTON

Popular community store offering good choice of products & services from well fitted & secure 3-storey parade premises with high volume of year-round regular & passing trade in busy suburban main road position. Comes with potential private accommodation & scope for product expansion & extended hours etc in excellent location priced for quick genuine sale with valuable inventory of fixtures & fittings included & viewing highly recommended REF 1341

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position among other independent operators in the vibrant and densely populated satellite town of Accrington, which lies with excellent access both to major road and motorway links (A680, A679, A56 and M65 junction 7 etc.) and to the nearby centres of Blackburn (approximately 4 miles) Burnley (approximately 6 miles) Preston (approximately 13 miles) and Manchester (approximately 20 miles) in the Hyndburn Borough of Lancashire.

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

This long established community store currently primarily conducts an extremely popular retail operation of a wide selection of traditional news, confectionery and tobacco lines, in addition to supporting two morning-only local news delivery rounds.

The store also stocks a good choice of daily shopping essentials including greetings cards, stationery, general convenience grocery items, toiletries, cleaning products, pet foods, soft drinks, ice creams and associated sundries, all displayed to their best advantage in a bright, welcoming and secure customer service area.

“Moosa Newsagent & General Store” also holds valuable National Lottery, electronic Paypoint and mobile phone top-up franchises and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to still further expansion of the retail products currently offered, to perhaps include alcohol off sales, and to further development of its local delivery services, particularly for elderly customers in outlying areas.

The business would also benefit greatly by operating significantly extended morning and evening retail hours in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of some ten successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of just two part-time shop staff, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

These well fitted and maintained THREE-STOREY freehold terraced parade premises provide excellent and highly functional internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting and fully glazed, single-fronted public entrance directly off Whalley Road into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open-plan retail sales and customer service area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and mixed carpeted and industrial non-slip flooring throughout.

The main customer service area houses a full range of well maintained, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display furniture and shelving, in addition to extensive periodical and greetings cards racking, 3 x large, glass-fronted and refrigerated soft drinks display units, an ice cream conservator and a prominent, fully fitted point-of-sale counter area with confectionery and sundry displays, tobacco gantry, electronic till point, National Lottery terminal and full complement of electronic Paypoint and mobile phone top-up facilities.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of a fitted shop kitchen area, together with a large general dry goods store with separate doorway access to the rear.

To the FIRST FLOOR a landing area affords access to further ancillary accommodation, which we understand would afford excellent potential for conversion to private owners’ accommodation and currently consists of 2 x good-sized rooms, together with a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

The first-floor premises also afford access to a large open ATTIC SPACE with further conversion potential at second-floor level.

The property also enjoys the benefit of electric heating, in addition to the added security benefits of CCTV monitoring and a full alarm system.

Externally:

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

The property also incorporates a useful enclosed private service yard area to the rear with separate access for deliveries.

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