Kendrew House, Kendrew Street, Darlington

Forget spending dead money in rent - this unique 1+8 town centre Darlington property lets your business occupy one section while the 8 individual offices pay off your mortgage.

Or rent this attractive 2-storey self-contained office building at £23,700 (£1,975 per month) and retain first refusal on buying the entire building when it suits you.

8 separately let offices — four currently occupied, four available — generating the rental income that services your mortgage while you build equity. Professional occupants already here, the building already functioning, income already flowing.

The overseas owner, now getting old, can provide full vendor finance. No silly hoops to jump through, no putting your own home on the line - this property itself is the security for the mortgage. A sensible initial deposit, the deal structured to suit your tax requirements, and you're turning what used to be dead rent into something you'll own.

Let me give you the quick tour...

The separate 8 OFFICES - the income engine that pays your mortgage:

You walk in through the main door and small lobby - wall directory and doorbells for every office - through the glass inner door providing daytime security, with both doors protected by PIN access for 24/7/365 entry. You're into the spacious hallway: 3 large offices on this level, a fully equipped kitchenette, and two pristine toilets, one ambulant-accessible. Facing you is the wide Victorian staircase rising to a generous half-landing with feature window, then a couple more steps to the equally broad first floor hallway with 5 further offices — 3 long-term occupied by professionals. A local lady performs regular cleaning and light maintenance following a set schedule, also conducts viewings, and is on hand for emergency attendances.

Back down the staircase, out the front door, turn left, 20 metres along, and in to...

The ANNEX - yours for your business:

Through the street entrance into another small lobby with inner glass door for daytime security. This is where your business will enjoy having its headquarters — or rent out this Annex and take one or more of the 8 offices for yourself. Either way, recognise your permanent flexibility: no matter whether your business needs more or less space in the years ahead, you can move without moving address.

This Annex section features your Reception already fitted with lounge furniture, art on the walls, and a traditional cast iron stove in the fireplace of the exposed brick chimney-breast. Further back is a central passageway with its long storeroom, then into the large former kitchen and prep rooms — the building retains its restaurant planning permission, alcohol and hot food licences, food lift and cold room. Further back is a packing room with plumbing for a toilet (easily re-installed), leading out to the large enclosed courtyard with rear secure access to Holly Street. Upstairs: an open-plan level already fitted with large desks, plus male and female toilets - exposed brick chimney-breast on this level too, LED lighting, and smart wooden flooring throughout the building.

Now the really important part:

Notice the huge adjacent car park that makes this building so attractive to occupants and their visitors? The small card-payment fee keeping spaces genuinely available in a way overcrowded private car parks simply don't.

Then look over the road to the pedestrian precinct and realise you're in the town centre without being hidden from view and almost impossible to find. Realise too how many people pass your building each day, and the huge signage potential both for you and any occupants.

Darlington town centre location
+ huge adjacent car park
+ prominent 3-building frontage
+ Victorian proportions and architecture

What would it say about your business if it were located here?

A unique combination not found elsewhere in Darlington, a survivor by accident of the inner ring road, its 3-building frontage making it an imposing presence in Darlington's landscape. A statement property, lovingly restored and re-wired with full gas central heating, building-wide fibre Internet, 'B' rated EPC yet retaining those gorgeous Victorian features - a building that's impossible to miss.

£23,700 pa to rent, or £430,000 freehold purchase with 8% vendor finance.

At £23,700 the Annex rental alone can service your mortgage whilst your business occupies one of the 8 individual offices.

If your genuine intention is to buy, and you can demonstrate a £35,000 deposit, I'll give you 6 months rent-free to relocate your business and get settled before payments begin. With even just 4 of the 8 offices currently occupied, your net monthly cost would be under £1,160. At full occupancy you'd run at a surplus of over £800 a month — with which to begin paying down the capital.

When you respond, you'll receive by auto-response the same Information Pack sent to prospective office occupants — giving you a clear picture of how the building functions. A few hours later you'll receive my personal reply, and we can take it from there.

David










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