Offers in Region of £445,000 9 bedroom guest house for sale Westgate, Pickering, YO18

Tenure: Freehold

DESCRIPTION
The property comprises a terrace of two and three storey buildings running back from Westgate on one side of the site. It commences with the guest house and is followed by the holiday letting cottage which in turn is attached to the garages and workshop. The buildings are largely of stone with under-felted tiled roofs and have been converted, re-furbished and modernised over the last thirty years by the present occupiers, developers and builders.

SITUATION
Westgate is the main road leading out of Pickering and part of the A170 which runs along the southern side of the North Yorkshire Moors between Scarborough, Pickering, Helmsley and beyond. Driving westwards out of Pickering the property lies on the right side of Westgate, about half way along it, and is identified by a Bed and Breakfast sign. The property is within half a mile of the Town centre and has a good promotional frontage directly to the street. It is a largely historic residential area with similar attractive stone built cottages, houses and large properties fronting Westgate.

TRADING
The principal business of the vendors has been that of building contractors and the guest house and holiday-letting business has been incidental to that and undertaken more as a hobby than as a dynamic trading enterprise which, we are informed, it could be. Pickering is a tourist centre and exceptionally well placed for enjoying the surrounding beautiful countryside, National Park and coast. It now attracts a lot of visitors who use it as a base for such explorations. 103 is in an ideal position to catch both the passing trade and attract repeat business. The holiday-letting cottage has been a considerable attraction and the owners have run a successful bed and breakfast operation when it has suited them. It should also be borne in mind that the garaging, ground floor and upper floor workshops currently used as a Joiners Workshop offers potential for conversion into another cottage which would look quite normal in this position and expand the trading potential that exists.

ACCOMMODATION

103 WESTGATE

VESTIBULE

HALL

GUEST SITTING ROOM: 4.02m x 3.50m (13’2” x 11’5”)
With attractive open fireplace and display shelving.

DINING ROOM: 5.03m x 2.94m (16’6” x 9’8”)
Fitted with a range of floor and wall cupboards and drawers.

SIDE ENTRANCE LOBBY and PASSAGE

UTILITY ROOM
With stainless steel sink top. Plumbing for automatic washing machine. Points for fridge and freezer.

CLOAKROOM
With WC and hand basin.

KITCHEN: 3.88m x 3.50m (12’9” x 11’6”)
With double bowl stainless steel sink top. Matching range of floor and wall cupboards and drawers incorporating a refrigerator. Belling gas double oven and eight ring cooker.

PRIVATE SITTING ROOM
With electric coal-effect fire set in carved timber surround. Patio window and door over-looking garden. Fine purpose made dresser with display shelving and cupboarding.

FIRST FLOOR

BEDROOM (1): 3.14m x 2.77m (10’4” x 9’1”)

BEDROOM (2): 3.07m x 3.45m (10’1” x 11’4”)

BEDROOM (3): 2.43m x 4.16m (7’11” x 13’8”)

BEDROOM (4): 2.74m x 3.04m

SHOWER ROOM
Shower cubicle with white suite of pedestal hand basin and WC.

SEPARATE WC

BATHROOM
With panelled bath with electric shower over, pedestal hand basin and WC.

BEDROOM (5): 2.19m x 3.42m (7’2” x 11’3”)

BEDROOM (6): 2.47m x 3.42 (8’6” x 11’3”)

SECOND FLOOR

BEDROOM (7): 3.55mx 3.58m (11’8” x 11’9”)

BEDROOM (8): 2.82m x 3.35m (9’3” x 11’0”)

SEPARATE WC

BEDROOM (9): 2.29m x 3.50m (10’10” x 11’6”)
The bedrooms are fitted with hand basins and wardrobe cupboards and provide other facilities commonly found in letting-rooms today. The ground floor is of solid construction and a number of rooms and lobbies have ceramic tiled flooring. Sealed unit and secondary double glazing is installed in most of the principal rooms.

WESTGATE COTTAGE

GROUND FLOOR

LIVING ROOM/DINING ROOM/KITCHEN: 5.79m x 4.90m (19’0” x 16’1”)
The sitting area is provided with an electric coal-effect fire within a classical style surround and there is an understairs cupboard beneath the staircase to the first floor. TV point. The dining area adjoins the kitchen which is fitted with a matching range of floor and wall cupboards and drawers. Electric oven and grill and four plate hob. Stainless steel sink unit.

BEDROOM (1): 3.99m x 2.84m (13’1” x 9’4”)
Wardrobe, cupboard off.

BEDROOM (2): 2.80m x 2.74m (9’2” x 8’11”)

BATHROOM
Pine panelled bath with shower over, pedestal hand basin and WC.
This property which is fully furnished throughout includes one double and three single beds, a three piece lounge suite and a six chair and table dining suite.

GARAGES, WORKSHOP and LOFT

GARAGE: 5.63m x 3.65m (18’6” x 12’0”)
Roller shutter door. Electric light and power.

GARAGE AND WORKSHOP: 5.63m x 7.16 (18’6” x 23’7”)
Roller shutter door. Electric light and power.

There is a lock-up store inside the workshop and a personnel door to the outside.

LOFT: 10.89m x 3.04m (35’9” x 10’0”)
Plus a substantial area on both sides of the purlins. The shorter dimension is taken across the pitch to points just beyond the purlin beams, providing a ceiling height at that point of about 4.5 ft. Conversion of this accommodation into a dwelling would provide an internal floor space of about 93 sq m (1000 sq ft), typical, for instance, of a smaller 3 bedroomed house.

SERVICES - There are mains supplies of electricity, gas and water and there is a connection to the mains drainage system. Central heating is provided in number 103 at ground and first floor levels except in two of the bedrooms. Space heating is provided in Westgate Cottage by electric storage heaters and an electrically heated towel rail and radiator.

OUTSIDE - The property is entered off Westgate and there is a private brick paved driveway and parking area running down the side of the property to parking and turning space towards the rear. Along the frontage there is a lawned garden enclosed by a low stone wall with a high screening wall facing Westgate.

FURNISHINGS - All of the furnishings, fixtures and equipment in Westgate Cottage are included in the sale and a purchaser may negotiate to acquire the Reception room and Bedroom furnishings seen in 103, apart from certain personal items which would be identified at the time.

TENURE - Freehold.

VIEWING - Viewing arrangements may be made through the Agent’s office in Pickering (01751) 475557.

PROPERTY MISDESCRIPTION ACT 1991
These sales particulars have been carefully prepared and all reasonable efforts have been made to produce them accurately. They are meant to be descriptive and informative within the strictures of the Act. Mechanical and electrical equipment and the services have not been tested and cannot be guaranteed. Measurements are not guaranteed.