FULLY LICENSED FREEHOLD HOTEL/RESTAURANT & FUNCTION VENUE IN WARMINSTER TOWN CENTRE

Fantastic opportunity to acquire impressive family-run corner-sited period premises offering 11 mostly en-suite guest rooms & extensive & extremely well fitted non-resident licensed bar/ tea room/restaurant and detached function room facilities with excellent year-round trade in historic riverside market town centre. Comes with versatile 2-bed private/staff apartment & lots of further potential in outstanding commercial location. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with valuable inventory of quality fixtures & fittings included & viewing absolutely essential REF 1474

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible corner trading position in the busy heart of the prosperous and historic year-round riverside tourist market town of Warminster, which lies with excellent access to major road links (A36, A350 and A386 etc.) on the fringes of Salisbury Plain in a delightful and affluent semi-rural area of Wiltshire with a high volume of year-round tourist activity.

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

This long established and highly regarded, family-run hostelry currently primarily offers a high standard of bed, breakfast and optional evening meal hotel accommodation in its eleven attractively furnished single, double and family-sized rooms, all but two of which boast fully fitted private en-suite facilities.

The hotel is also locally renowned for its all-day menu of classic daytime hot and cold tea room snacks, sandwiches, light and full lunches, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, afternoon teas and beverages, together with a full a la carte evening menu of restaurant cuisine, with the current emphasis on contemporary Italian and Mediterranean fare including pasta dishes, antipasti, pizza, side orders and indulgent homemade desserts.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its extensively equipped commercial catering kitchens employing the finest and freshest, locally-sourced and authentic imported produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of two charming, welcoming and tastefully furnished non-resident licensed tea room and restaurant areas which combine to accommodate approximately sixty-five covers in style and comfort and include all the extremely well fitted traditional free house licensed wine bar facilities associated with an establishment of this kind.

“The Farmers Hotel” is additionally a major local venue for weddings and all manner of other private occasions accommodated in the property’s fully licensed and versatile self-contained function suite (“The Stable Room”) and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to considerable further development of its local outside catering services for all manner of private and corporate occasions and to possibly employing the property’s private accommodation for additional letting purposes.

The business would also benefit 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 impressive levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of more than forty highly successful years’ trading in the hands of the current husband and wife proprietors, with the aid of a small, experienced and motivated team of three full-time and three part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

THE FARMERS HOTEL

Whilst parts of the building date back to the 15th Century, this charming, substantial and impressive Grade II listed THREE-STOREY freehold landmark character property has been sympathetically converted, modernised and extended over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

To the GROUND FLOOR the premises provide extremely well fitted and appointed, non-resident licensed internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting public entrance into a welcoming reception foyer area leading both to a charming 20-cover coffee shop/tea room and to the property’s main, attractively furnished 45-cover restaurant.

The dining areas also incorporate a cosy non-resident licensed reception bar area with lounge furnishings for pre and after-dinner drinks and a small, fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery with full range of wine racking, bottle and glass display and storage shelving, chilled drinks display facilities and electronic till point etc.

The dining areas are served by a fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system, tiled flooring and stainless-steel clad walls for easy cleaning, housing ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, and a full range of well maintained, industry standard stainless-steel catering appliances including 6-burner range with double oven, deep-fat fryer, griddle and various microwave refrigerator and freezer storage units etc., all of which we understand is 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 catering facilities consists of a fully fitted and equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area, together with a separate, fully fitted and equipped dedicated pizza preparation kitchen with state-of-the-art commercial pizza oven, hot cabinet and back-up refrigerator/freezer storage units.

The ground-floor premises naturally also incorporate all the usual separate male and female washrooms/WC facilities for customers, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a good-sized general dry goods/bottle store, together with a comfortably furnished staff restroom area.

Accessed by means of its own separate guest reception foyer area and staircase from ground-floor level, to the FIRST FLOOR a landing area affords access to a high standard of attractively furnished and presented hotel guest accommodation, which comprises :-

2 x single rooms with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
2 x double rooms with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
2 x family-sized rooms with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
1 x standard single room
1 x standard double room

Further ancillary guest accommodation to the first floor consists of a fully fitted communal bathroom and 2 separate cloakroom/WC facilities for the use of the non en-suite rooms.

To the first floor this wonderful lifestyle opportunity currently also provides comfortable, convenient and versatile living accommodation ideal for private, staff or additional letting purposes, which consists of a good-sized lounge and a fully furnished and computerised private business office/study with online booking system, together with two good-sized double bedrooms and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

To the SECOND FLOOR a landing area affords access to further excellent hotel guest accommodation which comprises:-

2 x double rooms with fully fitted private en-suite facilities
1 x family-sized room with fully fitted private en-suite facilities

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

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

THE STABLE ROOM

Accessed by means of its own separate self-contained entrance, the property also features a large, purpose-designed-and-built dedicated function suite ideal for weddings and all manner of other private and corporate occasions with accommodation consisting of the main 50 cover function room area with dance floor and its own fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery.

The function suite also incorporates its own washroom/WC facilities for customers and a fully fitted and equipped “cold” kitchen for the preparation of buffets, allowing the area to operate completely independently from the hotel and restaurant.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding corner trading position on a high footfall market town centre commercial thoroughfare, to the exterior the premises are well signed and attractively presented, with customer parking available in a number of nearby local public car parks.

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

www.farmershotelwarminster.co.uk

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