74 Main Street, Keswick, CA12

Retail/ cafe premises to let. 

74 Main Street, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5DX

FEATURES

• Characterful property featuring angled return frontage and part 1st floor

• Use Class E with tremendous potential for retail and/or café use

• Good secondary retail position fronting Main Street near supermarkets, library etc

• Fully vacant - ready to fit out by incoming tenant

• Rental £20,000 per annum dependent on lease terms agreed

DESCRIPTION

The property comprises a predominantly single storey retail premises with a two-storey area to the front section. The property is a mid-terraced building, dating from the late 18th century, originally a dwelling which was converted into retail use in the late 1980s. The main retail area is of rectangular shape with an angled return frontage formerly a counter serving takeaway refreshments. The principal entrance is to the right of the street frontage. At the rear of the premises is a single storey extension that housed the main kitchen when the property was used as a cafe. A door to the exterior leads back to Main Street via an archway.

Internally, the floor is exposed flagstones. The walls are of stone and the roof is a pitched slate covered construction. A timber structure supports the 1st floor mezzanine and to one side there is a former serving hatch to the street. Under the stairs to the mezzanine there is also a WC with handwash basin.

The in-going tenant will be able to adapt the interior to suit their requirements, subject to any required permissions.

RENT

The quoting rent is £20,000 per annum exclusive. There is no in-going premium.

LOCATION

74 Main Street is in a busy location on the main thoroughfare into the Town from the west and is on the south facing side of Main Street. There is public car parking in relatively close proximity and the Booths supermarket car park is just 2 mins walk away. Keswick is a very busy tourist town in the north of the Lake District National Park with a resident population of 4,500 (2021) swelling to several times that number in the peak of the expanding season. The town is attracting more and more visitors out of season and there is an excellent range of good local shops and other businesses to support them.

FLOOR AREA

Sales: 57 sq.m/ 614 sq.ft

Mezzanine: 22 sq.m/ 236 sq.ft

Total Net Internal Area 79 sq.m/ 850 sq.ft.

WC

SERVICES

Main water, drainage and electricity are connected.

LEASE TERMS

The property is offered on a full repairing and insuring lease for a term of 6 years. The quoting rent is £20,000 per annum exclusive, payable monthly in advance and there is to be a rent review to open market value effective from the end of the 3rd year of the term.

SECURITY

An in-going tenant may be required to lodge a rent deposit with the landlord, subject to status.

INSURANCE

The landlord will insure the building with the premium to be reimbursed by the tenant.

RATING ASSESSMENT

The property is currently assessed to a rateable value of £13,500 in the 2023 Non-Domestic Rating List

VAT

No VAT is payable on the rent.

Viewing Arrangements

Via Edwin Thompson LLP - Keith Mitchell/ Carol Westmorland in our Keswick Office. 

Date of Particulars: December 2024

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