IMPRESSIVE FREEHOLD VILLAGE PUBLIC HOUSE & RESTAURANT IN THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE FENS

Marvellous opportunity to acquire old established family-run hostelry currently operating just 6 short evening per week from impressive detached landmark character premises in substantial grounds with spacious & extremely well fitted bar/games & dining facilities on very select village through road. Comes with versatile 4-bed private/staff accommodation & HUGE scope for extended hours & development of food etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with extensive inventory of quality fixtures & fittings included & early viewing strongly advised REF 1525

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position set back from a busy main tourist route through the very select village of Parson Drove, which lies at the junction of the B1166 and B1187, and with excellent access to all the many amenities and attractions of the nearby historic market town and inland port of Wisbech, in the delightful and affluent Fenlands district of Cambridgeshire.

We are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire a thriving income producing home of uncommon size, quality and further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents exceptional value.

This old established and “TripAdvisor” highly rated, family-run hostelry has become an important focal point of the local, close-knit community in the course of very many years’ highly successful trading by providing all the welcoming and extremely well fitted traditional free-of-tie licensed bar and games facilities associated with an establishment of this kind.

“The Butcher’s Arms” is also widely renowned both for its range of fine, cask-conditioned real ales and for its full and varied menu of classic, home cooked pub meals, snacks, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, indulgent desserts and hearty traditional 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 restaurant area which may accommodate up to forty covers in style and comfort, with additional general bar and external covers also available if required.

The inn is additionally home to a number of local indoor sports teams and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with truly vast scope for continued growth, not least with regard to exploring all the ongoing development potential of the property’s generous surrounding grounds for a possible extension to its existing facilities and to operating hugely extended hours in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a far more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing services, particularly with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of some twenty-six successful years’ trading in the hands of the current husband and wife proprietors, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of two full-time and two part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

This substantial, impressive and well maintained TWO-STOREY freehold detached former coaching inn property dates back to the Regency period and has been sympathetically converted, modernised and extended over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

The property provides outstanding and “TripAdvisor” highly rated business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises an inviting public vestibule entrance into the main public bar area with a large cast-iron wood burning stove in impressive original inglenook fireplace, attractive furnishings for approximately 25 covers, large wall-mounted menu/specials boards and a prominent, fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery with full range of optics, draught and hand pulled cask pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display and storage shelving and electronic till/food ordering point etc.

Boasting a wealth of exposed original timber work and well maintained carpets throughout, the public bar area, in turn, affords easy open access through to an adjoining lounge bar with its own wood-burning stove in original fireplace, well maintained loose and fixed upholstered furnishings for approximately 25 covers, pool table, bar billiards table and its own, fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery.

Accessed directly from the bar areas, or by means of its own separate public entrance, the ground- floor premises also feature a charming dedicated restaurant with attractive furnishings for approximately 40 covers and access through to a fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system.

The main kitchen area houses ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area and a full range of well maintained, industry standard stainless-steel catering appliances, all of which we understand are to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

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 fully fitted and equipped utility/laundry room and a good-sized general dry goods store, together with a fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar/bottle store with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

The ground-floor premises also afford descending staircase access down to a large and dry, full-height cellar storage area.

To the FIRST FLOOR this wonderful lifestyle opportunity provides comfortable, convenient and versatile living accommodation ideal for private or staff purposes, which consists of 1 x master double bedroom with fully fitted private en-suite facilities and 3 x additional good-sized standard double bedrooms, together with a fully fitted shower room/WC and a general/linen storeroom.

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

Externally:

Occupying a fantastic and highly visible trading position set back from a busy year-round rural tourist route in the delightful Fenlands district of Cambridgeshire, to the exterior the premises are well signed and attractively presented and are situated in generous surroundings grounds with development potential subject, of course, to the obtaining of any necessary consents.

The grounds currently feature a substantial private patrons’ car park to the front which may comfortably accommodate up to thirty vehicles, in addition to extensive and well maintained private service yard and lawned public beer garden areas to the rear.

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