Property hunt: leaseholds under £50k

This week's properties for sale focuses on leaseholds under £50k.

Check out the full list of properties for sale here and contact melissa.blakely@wrbm.com to feature on this section or the website.

Chequers Inn

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Weston-on-the-Green, near Bicester, Oxfordshire

Price: £42,000

Tenure: Leasehold

Rent: £40,800

Landlord: Fullers

Turnover: £357,959

Wet:dry split: 30:70

Agent: Fleurets

Weston-on-the-Green is located to the north-west of Oxford, only 4.4 miles from Bicester Village, the world famous outlet shopping centre, and is ideally positioned

to be a destination restaurant attracting trade from Oxford, Bicester and the surrounding villages.

This thatched property benefits from good access to the B430 road, and has a terrace and gardens to the front, side and rear. Internally, there are interlinking flexible bar and restaurant areas that provide up to 70 covers.

Crown and Thistle 

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Great Chesterford, Essex

Rent:£35,000

Tenure: Free-of-tie lease

Landlord: Private

Turnover: Undisclosed

Wet:dry split: 35:65

Agent: Everard Cole 

The Crown & Thistle is a detached property occupying a prominent corner position. The ground floor comprises an open-plan trade area running the length of the property with a central wooden bar servery. The bar and restaurant areas cater for a combined 70 covers.

There is a commercial kitchen with extraction which is adjacent to a dry store room. Externally, there is a large grassed trading area, a brick-built barn, a garage and car parking for 20 cars. First-floor accommodation is extensive and comprises a kitchen, two double bedrooms and a bathroom. There are a further five double bedrooms that can be established as letting rooms, subject to consent.

Bird in Hand

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Bishops Lydeard, Somerset

Price: £37,500

Tenure: Free-of-tie lease

Rent: £25,000 plus VAT

Landlord: Wellington Pub Company

Turnover: £213,000

Wet:dry split: 80:20

Agent: Stonesmith

This pub is renowned for its real ales and features in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide. It supports three skittles teams and is a meeting place for football and netball teams. The pub is in the heart of the village with access to the M5 at Taunton, eight miles away.

A main bar offers 45 covers, dining area (16c). There is a kitchen and two bedroom owner’s accommodation. Outside there is a purpose-built skittle alley, car parking for 20 vehicles and a lawned trade garden (50c).

Prince of Wales

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Holcombe Rogus, Devon

Price: £25,000

Tenure: Free-of-tie lease

Rent: £10,000 in year one, £15,000 in year two and £20,000 in year three

Landlord: Private

Turnover: £120,000

Wet:dry split: 90:10

Agent: Bettesworths

This is an attractive 19th century freehouse, in the centre of an unspoilt village, near the Grand Western Canal close to the A38. It is about eight miles north-east of Tiverton. A new lease is available with a low starting rent of £10,000.

There is a spacious main bar with garden restaurant, main restaurant (45 covers), skittle alley, commercial kitchen, walled beer garden and private garden, car park and three-bedroom owner’s accommodation.

Harley's Bar & Grill

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Fordingbridge, Hampshire

Price: £45,000

Tenure: Free-of-tie lease

Landlord: Private

Rent: £35,000

Turnover: £338,000 inc VAT

Wet:dry split: 80:20

Agent: Guy Simmonds

This prominent and substantial fully refurbished bar and restaurant is situated on the high street of Fordingbridge, a highly sought after town within the New Forest, in Hampshire. The town has a population of about 6,000 residents and sits on the River Avon.

This well presented business has an open plan lounge bar/public bar/dining area catering for 150 covers in total, a commercial catering kitchen, a beer cellar and four-bedroom living accommodation.

Imperial Standard

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Aldershot, Hampshire

Price: £50,000

Tenure: Leasehold

Rent: £30,000

Landlord: Private

Turnover: £252,610

Wet:dry split: 100:0

Agent: Davey Co 

The Imperial Standard is prominently sited overlooking a park in this thriving residential area of Aldershot in Hampshire. This is a successful community freehouse benefiting from a well-presented main bar trading area with potential for a basement café/bar conversion, along with a small outside trading area.

Excellent first-floor owner’s accommodation is presented to a particularly high standard and comprises a lounge, fitted kitchen, three bedrooms and a family bathroom.