The Unicorn & Annexe, Bath Road, Melksham, Wiltshire

Business opportunity opposite an approved new 600 plus units housing estate.

The former Unicorn Bar and Restaurant is currently offered as a doer-upper for a sociable business or developer or to include a contractors near site office. The building retains part of the classical Georgian frontage. The rear has mixed single storey additions suited for alternative use.

The pub was created from a terrace of 3 weavers cottages, 3 storeys single cell with additions. In the 1960s the 3rd cottage was demolished and replaced by a 2 storey building to house pub toilets on the ground floor with a domestic kitchen and bath room above . Access to the self contained annex is from the Old Broughton Road side.

Main services have been reconnected. The site ready for a new ideas. At least 4 parking spaces
Grade II listed.

The concept is two-fold.
1: retain a single bar wet led pub with a 2 bed room flat and store on the top floor, This floor is expected to have tie bars to hold the bulge in the walls. A Structural Engineers report is available. The floor joists and ceilings require attention with damage caused by cannabis farming and fire damage in the former trade kitchen. This had been a brew house. The toilets will be the front part of the existing pub toilets.

The servery is designed to be in this room with accesses reopened that had been closed many years past. The public will have access to the proposed beer garden

2: A second income stream from The Annexe. The entrance is by the side door. The remaining trade toilet is for The Annexe, and a tea point or kitchenette located in the space remaining in the restricted corridor. The former saloon bar has been stripped out. The openings that had been made to the former restaurant will need closing. This room is seen as a contractors meeting room CMR and available to hire with parking.

New 3 phase electricity supply. New water supply. Gas meter by The Annexe

The building requires a lot of work. Some windows are in poor shape. A chimney require reducing and tie bars fitted. A buyer will find it helpful to be on good terms with appropriate officers in Wiltshire Council if considering future change of use, such as residential.

Reports available: Measured Building Survey with elevations, and topographical survey by Survey Base; Flood risk and history from Harrison Brookes, Heritage architects; Structural report from The Wilkinson Partnership