• • Prominent ground floor commercial premises
• • Last trading as a restaurant '1894'
• • Grade II listed premises with attractive original features
• • Refurbished to include a commercial kitchen & restaurant with 40 covers
• • Historic market town, 32 miles from Aberystwyth & 7 miles to railway station at Caersws
• • Popular tourist area with various self catering accommodation
• • CEPC = 63 (C) (exp 02/30)

Prominent commercial premises fronting Long Bridge Street within the market town of Llanidloes, with its black & white historic market hall in the centre. A notable building with the royal crest over being part of Plynlimon House built in 1892. Recently ran as a restaurant (ie) 1894 and prior to that as a high end fashion store (ie) L'Armoire Ladies Fashions. Currently fitted out for a restaurant with commercial kitchen area. Formerly a butchers' shop for many years the premises has oak flooring, the original old block counter with glazed top, mahogany panelling, wood panelled office, tiled walls together with refitted upgraded toilets and extensive kitchen area with extractor unit. The premises offer the new proprietors a range of various commercial opportunities subject to receiving the necessary approvals and consents.
Llanidloes is the first town on the River Severn and some 32 miles away from the coastal university town of Aberystwyth. It is convenient to a number of local tourist attractions - ie - Hafren Forest and the Clywedog Reservoir and their associated leisure pursuits. The Elan Valley Reservoirs & Dams are 17 miles distant. There is a railway station at Caersws 7 miles away with connections to Shrewsbury and beyond. The town also benefits from both primary & secondary schools, a sports centre. There are a number of caravan parks and self catering accommodation in the surrounding area.
The accommodation comprises

Main Shop/Restaurant 10.13 x 4.17 (42.25 sq m) with oak flooring, the old block counter with glazed top, the old till, mahogany panelling divide, electric ceiling lanterns, part tiled walls
Office 2.99 x 1.38 (4.12 sq m) with mahogany panelling
Rear Restaurant 4.3 x 5.3 (22.79 sq m) with quarry tiled floor, access to Double Cellar 5.09 x 3.68 & 4.95 x 3.68
Side Passage/Store Room 10.33 x 2.65 (27.4 sq m) with doorway onto Long Bridge Street
Gents Toilets with WC., urinal, wash basin, tiled floor, part tiled walls
Ladies/Disabled Toilet with WC., wash basin
Kitchen 6.32 x 4 with recently fitted extractor canopy, stainless steel double sink unit, tiled floor, through to
Freezer/Store Room 4.85 x 3.78 (18.37 sq m) with stainless steel wash basin, store cupboard off

Total floor area of 132 sq m (approx)

Outside:
Allocated rear parking spaces

Services
Mains electricity, water and drainage connected.

Listing:
The property is Grade II Listed - viz - History - Dated 1894. Built as a butcher's shop and house for Edward Hamer, on the site of the former Crown Inn. The business remains within the family. Hamer established a wide reputation for his Plynlimon mutton and became by royal appointment purveyor of meat to the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria and subsequent members of the Royal Family.

Exterior - 3-storey, 3-window red brick front with freestone quoins, cill bands, plinth and window dressings. Slate roof, tiled cresting and red brick and chimney stacks, and another to right of centre each with stock brick neck bands. Stock brick eaves band and dentil cornice. 4-pane sashes with architraves and cornices; similar window to ground floor right with glazing bar removed to frosted lower sash. Square headed carriage entry to left with decorative ironwork panels to top.
Tall and ornate central shop front and paired entrances with overall dentil cornice carried on paired brackets and panelled pilasters; panelled apron. Horned sash window to shop with anthemion patterned ironwork ventilation grille above. 6-panel door to right with fanlight and panelled reveals, half glazed shop door with coat of arms (probably added in 1901 after the Coronation of Edward VII) and the letters Edward Hamer Ltd.

Reasons for Listing - Included mainly for its' specially good shopfront.

Business Rates:
Rateable Value : £5,200 (Currently Small Business Rate Relief available). Potential tenants to make their own enquiries as to future reliefs.

Rent:
£12,000 per annum.

Terms:
Negotiable. Incoming tenant to pay all utilities and business rates, landlords legal costs and insurance on a pro rata basis.