20 Bridge Street, Kelso, Scottish Borders

BRIEF RESUME
- Excellent Trading Position
- Prominent Window Frontage
- Net Internal Area 82.90 sq m (892 sq ft)
- Highly Versatile
- Retail, Coffee Shop/ Bistro, Offices, Beauticians or Similar

LOCATION
20 Bridge Street is situated in a prime trading position within Kelso town centre.

Kelso is a traditional market town in the Scottish Borders characterised by a relatively affluent catchment population supporting higher than average disposable income and a strong base of independent traders with the wider area increasingly regarded as one of the most sought after residential locations in the region.

The town benefits from an attractive historic setting and a vibrant market square providing a good range of shops and restaurants and serves as an important local employment and retail centre for a wide rural hinterland with tourism playing a significant role supported by cultural and heritage attractions .

The area benefits from extensive recreational amenities including rural walking and cycling routes leisure and fitness facilities a National Hunt racecourse golf course ice rink swimming pool and a broad range of sporting clubs together with renowned salmon fishing on the River Tweed and established educational provision for all age groups within the town and surrounding area.

Demographic analysis based on CoStar data indicates a 2022 population of 7573 within 2 miles 9822 within 5 miles and 27775 within 10 miles with projected 2027 population growth to 7579 within 2 miles 9882 within 5 miles and 27984 within 10 miles while average household income levels are recorded at £26987 within 2 miles £29368 within 5 miles and £28163 within 10 miles and median household income levels are £30876 within 2 miles £33739 within 5 miles and £32434 within 10 miles.

DESCRIPTION
A prominent town centre retail unit with associated ancillary accommodation, occupying the ground floor of an attractive three-storey Category B Listed building dating from the mid-18th century.

The property is of traditional stone construction, featuring a painted rendered frontage with an attractive gabled elevation. The main building is finished with a pitched slate roof, while single-storey rear extensions comprise a combination of stone and rendered cavity wall construction beneath pitched roofs.

Original architectural features are retained, including hardwood-framed, single-glazed windows and cast-iron rainwater goods, contributing to the building’s traditional character.

20 Bridge Street benefits from a wide and highly visible retail frontage, incorporating three display windows and a recessed glazed pedestrian entrance, together with a traditional retail fascia.

Internally, the accommodation provides a front retail area arranged in a broadly ‘T’-shaped configuration, leading to ancillary space to the rear. The property further benefits from delivery access via Abbey Row to the rear.

ACCOMMODATION
Retail area in ‘T’ configuration, rear lobby, large store room, Kitchen/ store room, Storage lobby, Large WC with scope for further storage. Rear Lobby with external service access to Abbey Row.

AREAS
Net Internal Area: 82.90 sq m / 892 sq ft
In Terms of Zone A: 62.65 sq m / 674 sq ft

SERVICES
The subject property is connected to mains electricity, water and drainage. Mains gas available but currently disconnected.

BUSINESS RATES
£12,000 effective 01-April-2026.

The Small Business Rates Relief Scheme (SBRR) currently provides 100% rates relief units with a combined rateable value of £12,000 or less based on the total of all the occupier’s business premises within Scotland, subject to application and eligibility. This relief scheme is reviewed annually. The Rateable Value of each of the individual suite s in isolation is well below this threshold.

LEGAL COSTS
Each party will be responsible for their own legal costs incurred in connection with this transaction.

In the normal manner, the in-going tenant will be liable for any land and buildings transaction tax, registration dues and VAT thereon.

VALUE ADDED TAX
Unless otherwise stated the prices quoted are exclusive of VAT.

Any intending tenants must satisfy themselves independently as to the instances of VAT in respect of any transaction.

LEASE TERMS
Available by way of a Full Repairing and Insuring lease. Terms by negotiation.

PLANNING
The current use class for the property is understood to be 1A which incorporates the former [Class 1 of the Town and Country (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997] for retail and [Class 2 of the Town and Country (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997 for financial, professional and other services.

There may also be scope for Chane of Use to Class 3 (Food and Drink) subject to obtaining all necessary consents.

VIEWING
By appointment with the sole agents.

Edwin Thompson, Chartered Surveyors
76 Overhaugh Street
Galashiels
TD1 1DP

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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Edwin Thompson for themselves and for the Vendor of this property, whose Agents they are, give notice that:

1. The particulars are set out as a general outline only for the guidance of intending purchasers and do not constitute, nor constitute part of, any offer or contract.

2. All descriptions, dimensions, plans, reference to condition and necessary conditions for use and occupation and other details are given in good faith and are believed to be correct, but any intending purchasers should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to their correctness.

3. No person in the employment of Edwin Thompson has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to this property or these particulars, nor to enter into any contract relating to the property on behalf of the Agents, nor into any contract on behalf of the Vendor.

4. No responsibility can be accepted for loss or expense incurred in viewing the property or in any other way in the event of the property being sold or withdrawn.

5. Edwin Thompson is the generic trading name for Edwin Thompson Property Services Limited, a Limited Company registered in England and Wales (no.07428207). Registered office:28 St John’s Street, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5AF