Lancaster Memorials, High Ackworth, Pontefract Road, WF7

Monumental Masonry Business for Sale
West Yorkshire

Freehold
Guide Price £450000 - Offers Considered
Turnover £380000
Net profit on request



Due to owner retirement, A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to acquire and run a long established and highly profitable Monumental Masonry Business. Set in a prominent location in a beautiful and charming West Yorkshire village, with its blend of rural tranquility and modern convenience where this business upholds its highly respected reputation for the highest quality workmanship with the most caring and courteous service.
This family-run business, which was founded in 1974 offers its clientele a full range of monumental services producing outstanding memorials, born of individual design, through a willingness to listen and with patience paramount to achieve the most fitting tributes.




The business comprises a fully functional workshop with sandblast cabinet fed by a twin pump compressor unit and air tank. A hydraulic scissor lift roller table and 3 roller stations make handling each memorial a simple task with minimal physical output.


The stone-built, cottage-style building offers a separate office in which there are two computer stations, one predominantly for orders and administration, the other for designing products and creating visual representations of orders that can either be emailed to customers or printed out and taken away.

There is also an indoor showroom where clients can interact with products, choose colour and finish, gauging sizes and suitability before making an informed decision.


The company also runs a very informative website and email service for families who find it difficult to visit or prefer to make their choice remotely.


Outside there is space for parking at the front and to the side of the building and to the rear there is space for storing additional inscriptions, foundations and new memorials.
The company van is a 2019 Fiat Talento High roof LWB
There is a Pillar drill for boring container holes, a mobile compressor with a Rasant dustless sand blast unit, a generator and numerous hand tools for day to day use. There are two sets of Battery powered sack trucks plus 2 sets of manual sack trucks and a pair of van ramps rated at 3 tonnes.
Current stock - memorials, foundations and sundries as of April 2026 - £26,000

The current director's role within the business will need to be replaced post sale due to retirement so the prospective purchaser should have experience in the field.

This is a wonderful opportunity for any existing memorial mason looking to own a long-established, highly profitable West Yorkshire business and due to its position close to the borders of South and North Yorkshire and its local access to the M62 and A1, expansion would be easily facilitated. This along with the companies excellent existing relationship with all local funeral directors and all local burial authorities including Wakefield, Leeds, Barnsley, Doncaster, York, Kirklees, Bradford and Sheffield as well as local churches and parish burial boards make this a very profitable investment.
This opportunity would also suit as a valuable satellite branch for larger existing monumental masons' or funeral directors' expansion plans.

The business currently owns and occupies 300m2 of a larger residential property (1700m2) which may also be purchased in a separate agreement and would provide 4/5-bedroom on-site accommodation in a stone-built dormer bungalow including a stone built, 2 storey barn outbuilding and large gardens to front and rear.