Quality Restaurant/Gift Shop
Price:
Freehold - £460,000
Location:
Somerset , Dunster
Business Type:
Food Service Businesses, Retail businesses
This business sale is being personally handled by Tony Foster Business Agent at Webbers Commercial. The business is that of a Cafeteria/ Restaurant seating 34 and offers home made lunches, cakes, snacks, coffees and both afternoon teas and cream teas as well as a quality gift shop. The business is operated by a husband and wife team and opens from March to around mid December, closed on Thursdays out of choice, and opening 10am - 4.30pm. The gift shop is operated on separate terms opening similar hours and sells quality gifts including handbags, costume jewellery, Cornish hand made crafts, locally made crafts, some Fairtrade products, hats, jackets, cushions and bedspread covers. The business is available as a going concern and if the business is acquired including the gift shop then stock will have to be purchased at valuation by negotiation. The final stock figure will depend on the time of year.
We understand that the chapel was converted around 1971 and originally operated as a pottery kiln and in the mid 1980's the tea shop was established. A discerning purchaser could utilise the entire ground floor as a Restaurant/Tea Shop or continue this already successful business. Details of audited accounts will be available to those seriously interested parties who have inspected the property.
The business is located in a prime tourist position in the popular medieval village of Dunster within Exmoor National Park. Chapel House fronts on to West Street and faces the main pedestrian thoroughfare and is directly opposite one of the main vehicular access ways to the famous Dunster Castle. The property is within sight of the village Church and near by is the popular village School.
The village of Dunster is considered to be one of the prettiest in England and amongst its many attractions are the Castle and the famous Yarn Market. It is on the fringe of Exmoor National Park close to some of the best moorland and woodland countryside offering delightful walks. The seaside town of Minehead is within some 3 miles distance and provides a further range of tourist facilities. The village offers a host of local shops and it is a magnet for day trippers throughout the year and perhaps most famous for the candlelight Christmas celebration.
In recent years the village was used
The property is a former Methodist Chapel dating back to around 1878 being a Grade II listed building and having been converted to a delightful family home and income. The property has many architectural features of merit, being constructed of dressed and coarsed red sandstone and having a steep gabled natural slate roof and ornate Dutch gable to the front. There are moulded architraves to the ground floor windows. The property is extremely large and the ground floor, being a formal chapel, is taken up entirely now by the Restaurant/Cafeteria on one side and on the other side is the Gift Shop which extends to the rear on two further levels where the former alter used to stand.
Within the Cafeteria there are displayed, 3 wall mounted depictions of verses from the Bible believed to date back some 200 years. To the rear of the Gift Shop access is gained to the rear car port where there is a customer cloakroom.
The private quarters are approached from the side of the property h
North Yorkshire
£ 750,000
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