Holne Community Tearoom, Main Road, Holne, Devon

Holne Community Tea Room is situated within a single storey purpose built and fitted building which is also home to the the community run village shop. The business is fully fitted and equipped and is ready for a new owner to immediately take over and start trading. The opportunity is being offered by way of a new lease. This is a unique opportunity to run a highly desirable moorland tearooms with genuine potential for incoming operators to develop their own style of trade to suit their personal requirements. The premises briefly comprise: - Well appointed Tearoom with Customer Seating Area for 22+ customers; attractive Tea Gardens with country views and seating for 40+ customers, fully equipped Kitchen and a Customers Servery Area. Externally to the front is a small, shared Customer Car Park.

SITUATION
Holne Community Tea Room is located in the centre of the attractive moorland village of Holne, set on the southeastern edge of Dartmoor National Park. It is located approximately 3 miles from the towns of Ashburton and Buckfastleigh with their direct access to the A38 main road, 10 miles from Newton Abbott and approximately 22 miles from both Exeter and Plymouth. Dartmoor National Park is world renowned for its rugged and stunning moorland scenery and wildlife and the Two Moors Way footpath which stretches across Dartmoor and up to Exmoor, passes through Holne.

INTERNAL DETAILS
Entrance doors to the front from the car park into communal Entrance Hallway with Staff WC and Customer WC with disabled facilities. Through to Main Tea Room Seating Area an attractive purpose fitted customer seating area, being extremely well presented with air conditioning, multiple aspects to the side and rear, double doors leading to the Tea Gardens, wall mounted menu boards, laminated flooring, feature lighting, free standing wooden tables and chairs comfortably seating 22+ customers. Customer Servery Area with Altro flooring, one and a half bowl stainless steel sink unit, perimeter work surfaces, under counter fridge, commercial dishwasher, base storage cupboards, wall shelving, cake display cabinet, Expobar commercial cappuccino machine, coffee grinder, glass fronted bottle fridge and a pie and pasty warming display cabinet. Kitchen with Altro flooring, part tiled and part wipe clean clad walls, fitted with a range of catering equipment to include:- extractor system with stainless steel canopy over, twin bowl stainless steel sink unit, two electric cookers with halogen hob and electric ovens, table top deep fat fryer, stainless steel work surfaces, shelving, two undercounter freezers, commercial upright fridge, commercial microwave oven and toaster.

EXTERNAL DETAILS
Externally the property has a shared gravelled Car Park Area to the front for up to 5 vehicles. To the rear is an enclosed private Tea Garden with stunning views of the surrounding countryside, predominately laid to lawn, incorporating a Terraced Seating Area and with picnic style wooden benches providing Al Fresco seating for 40+ customers. Pedestrian access to the side. Further unrestricted parking is available nearby.

THE BUSINESS
The tearoom has traded for around 20 years and had been run as a community venture for around 9 years. In recent years it has been run as an independent business, and the premises, which benefit from low overheads and running costs, are fully equipped and furnished and ready to trade. The business has historically traded on a daytime only basis and on limited and restricted hours, dependent on the time of year. The tearoom attracts customers from the village, visitors to the area, day trippers, tourists and cyclists, as well as ramblers along the Two Moors Way. The business benefits from a 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating and numerous excellent reviews on Google. A viewing appointment is essential in order to fully appreciate all that this unique business opportunity offers.

TRADING INFORMATION
The business currently trades six days a week, Wednesday to Sunday from 10am until 4pm and trade levels are kept below the VAT threshold through personal choice. Further information regarding sales for the tearoom can be made available to interested parties following a formal viewing appointment. Please contact us for further details.

POTENTIAL
The tearoom offers tremendous potential for new owners to operate this unique and fully equipped tearoom and catering business in an idyllic moorland village setting. There are undoubted opportunities to develop the menu and cuisine offered, as well as potential for evening opening, in order to enhance income streams still further.

EPC
D-84

RATING
We are advised that the business rates are currently exempt as the business benefits from 100% Small Business Rates Relief.

SERVICES
We are advised that all mains services are connected to the subject property, with the exception of mains gas.
The electricity and water bills are split between the tearoom and the shop on a pro rata basis, full details available upon request.

PRICE & TENURE
£15,000 for the leasehold interest and the tearoom is being offered by way of the remainder of a 5 year lease which commenced on the 15th May 2025 with a rent of £115.39 a week (£6,000 per annum). Please contact us for further details.