IMPRESSIVE FREEHOLD HOTEL/BAR & RESTAURANT IN CASTLE DOUGLAS TOWN CENTRE

Outstanding opportunity to acquire old established hostelry with excellent year-round trade operating from impressive stone-built landmark period premises with large courtyard/private car park & 2-bed private cottage offering 12 AA 2-star en-suite guest rooms & extensive bar/games & underutilised dining facilities on historic town centre main street. Comes with unused top floor & vacant building plot & HUGE scope to develop in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with valuable inventory of fixtures & fittings included & early viewing strongly advised REF 2038

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position in the charming and historic year-round lochside market town of Castle Douglas, which lies with excellent access both to major road links (A75, A713 and A745 etc.) and to the beautiful and dramatic Solway Coast, in a delightful rural area of Dumfries and Galloway with a high volume of year-round tourist activity.

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

This old established hostelry currently primarily provides comfortable and affordable bed and breakfast accommodation in its twelve attractively furnished and AA two-star rated hotel guest rooms, all of which boast fully fitted private en-suite facilities.

“The Imperial Hotel” has also become an important focal point of the local community over the years by providing extensive and welcoming, non-resident licensed free house bar and games facilities and features a currently underutilised fifty-cover non-resident licensed restaurant served by a fully equipped commercial kitchen for the provision of hearty full Scottish breakfasts.

The property additionally boasts generous grounds which include a large central courtyard and beer garden with access to a substantial private patrons’ car park and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with truly vast scope for continued growth, not least with regard to the possible re-introduction of full non-resident licensed dining services, operating hugely extended non-resident bar hours in order to fully exploit year-round local demand and to exploring the on-going development potential of both of the property’s unused top-floor level, and of an adjoining development plot with valuable existing planning consent.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, both through its own 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 ten highly successful years’ trading in the hands of the current director, with the aid of a team of eight experienced and motivated staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

THE IMPERIAL HOTEL

These charming, substantial and impressive FOUR-STOREY freehold stone-built listed former Victorian coaching inn premises have been sympathetically converted, modernised and extended over the years whilst retaining many attractive original features.

The premises provide well fitted and highly functional internal business accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, briefly comprises an inviting public entrance directly off King Street into two, welcoming and interconnecting public bar areas, with well maintained loose and fixed upholstered furnishings and fully fitted, timber-built free-of-tie licensed serveries with full range of optics, draught pumps, chilled bottle display cabinets, bottle and glass display and storage shelving and electronic till points.

The public bar areas, in turn, afford access both to a large and fully equipped adjoining games room with polished timber flooring, pool table, 2 x dartboard areas and jukebox and to an additional, relaxing lounge bar area with its own fully fitted free of tie licensed servery.

Accessed directly from the bar areas, or by means of its own separate entrance, the ground-floor premises also feature an attractively appointed residents’ breakfast room and former non-resident licensed restaurant with well maintained fitted carpets and attractive furnishings for approximately 50 covers, which is served by a fully fitted and equipped commercial kitchen with extraction system.

The kitchen houses ample work services, storage units, a fully equipped preparation washing-up kitchen area 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.

The bar and restaurant areas also include their own separate male and female washroom/WC facilities for customers allowing them to operate independently if required, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a fully furnished and equipped private and general administration office, together with a fully fitted and equipped trade beer cellar/bottle store with refrigerated barrel storeroom and separate access for deliveries.

Accessed by means of its own separate entrance directly off King Street, the ground-floor premises also incorporate a welcoming, dedicated hotel reception area with fully fitted service desk and staircase access to the upper floors.

Accessed by means of a staircase from the ground-floor hotel reception area, to the FIRST and SECOND FLOORS the property provides attractively furnished and presented AA 2-star rated bed and breakfast guest accommodation in a total of 12 x double rooms, all of which boast fully fitted private en-suite facilities.

All the guest rooms additionally include satellite colour TV, hairdryer, radio/alarm and the usual complimentary hospitality facilities.

Accessed by means of a staircase from the second floor, the property also incorporates a large THIRD FLOOR level which we understand is currently unused, but which would naturally afford excellent potential for conversion to additional letting or private accommodation subject, of course, to the obtaining of any necessary consents.

The property also enjoys the benefit of mains gas and electricity power supplies, in addition to the added safety and security benefits of full fire and intruder alarm systems.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding trading position on a high footfall year-round tourist market town centre commercial thoroughfare, to the front the premises are well signed and attractively presented with an impressive listed façade and afford feature central archway vehicle access with lockable double security doors directly off King Street to a large and well maintained central courtyard employed as a public beer garden and smoking area with picnic-style bench and tables.

The courtyard area also features a large covered area employed for bicycle and motorcycle parking and storage purposes and affords rear open archway access through to a substantial private patrons’ car park.

The car park may comfortably accommodate up to 30 vehicles and affords access to a small adjoining building plot which we understand holds valuable existing planning consent for the construction of a detached private residence.

THE PRIVATE COTTAGE

This extensive freehold proposition and wonderful lifestyle opportunity also incorporates an adjoining private cottage providing a high standard of attractively presented and fully self-contained 2-bed owners’ accommodation with lounge and fully fitted kitchen and bathroom facilities.

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

www.theimperialgolfhotel.com

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