Club House On 27 Hole Golf Course For Sale

Business description

Deposit taken, solicitors instructed

Excellent location in stunning 27 hole golf course with captive audience from own caravan and camp site 15 minutes from the historic cathedral city of York.
Main Bar Area (100), Snug/Dining Room (40), Outside Patio (50), Car park (100)
Beautifully presented and spacious 3 bedroom family accommodation with stunning views of Golf course and countryside.
45% wet and 54% food trade with major potential for functions.
Advised turnover for y/e Oct 2008 £138,534 (incl. VAT).
Reconstituted Net Profit of £41,618.
Totally unique opportunity for enviable 'life style' business
for 'hands-on' chef/front of house partnership.

A solid and extremely profitable business in beautiful surroundings and location with own 'captive market'. Totally unique 'life style' business opportunity for 'hands on' partnership to build on the existing trade and exploit the potential of the food & function trades.

Asking price £39,950 free of tie to include fixtures & fittings, goodwill, excluding s.a.v.

The Property

The property is an extremely attractive and prominent building commanding great presence in the middle of this beautiful setting with stunning views of the golf course and country side with its own car park.

The Main Bar / Dining Room (100) is square shaped, fully carpeted with central wooden dance floor and beautiful presented with stunning feature fire place.

To the side, the Dining Room/ Snug (40) area provides a more intimate drinking/dining area. The bar, although slightly small, provides enough space for a limited selection of keg lager, beer and ciders. The back bar provides for displays of all spirit optics as well as a selection of bar snacks.

A reasonable size, adequately equipped Catering Kitchen is conveniently located to supply good quality 'traditional home cooked' meals, carverys and 'function' foods (appliances not tested).

On the same level and ideally situated adjacent to the bar is a good size Cellar also providing ample space for other dry goods, ambient and chilled foods and other items. The Gents and Ladies Toilets are well presented and complete the essential functions on the ground floor.

The Business

The Business has been in the hands of the current owners since 2006 who have enjoyed the unique life style and steady growth of the business. Reluctantly and due solely to health reasons and retirement plans the business is being offered for sale. A solid business has been built with good profits and the club house has a good reputation within the local community for good 'home cooked meals' and is well supported and benefits from the captive audience of the all year round tourist from its own caravan and camp site as well as 8 other caravan parks and 6 Fishing lakes all within 5 minutes drive. The 3 main villages of Wheldrake, Eskrik and Elvington with an approx population of 10,000 are also only 5 minutes away with each having only a single inn providing limited opening hours and food offerings. The Golf course and driving range are open to the public, has a very good reputation and has proved a popular spot for established and new golfers in the area. The traditional Sunday Carvery is also immensely popular with local, tourist and golfers.

It is our opinion that the Club House can be marketed more as a destination Inn offering good home cooked food and also there is tremendous potential to exploit the function business given the uniqueness of its facilities, location and stunning surroundings.

The business and 'life style' is ideal for a 'front of house' and 'chef' partnership (especially those who like golf). The operation is currently operated by the current owners with the assistance of temporary staff as required. We are advised that the turnover to Year End October 2008 was £138,534 (inc.VAT) from 45% wet sales and 54% food, gross profits of £80,063 with a Reconstituted Net Profit of £41,618.

Accounting information will be made available to interested parties after viewing.

Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Lease terms:

We are advised that the business is being offered for sale as a Lease Assignment with approximately 2 years remaining of the original 5 years 'rolling' free of tie renewable agreement (not seen). The Rent (inclusive of business rates) is advised as currently being £18,999.96 per annum. We are advised that the inn benefits from all mains services (excluding gas) with oil for central heating throughout (services not seen or tested).

Living accommodation:

Owners Accommodation Situated on the first floor, this area is extremely well presented, spacious with stunning views and provides an extremely comfortable living space for a family of 3 or 4 with 2 Double Bedrooms and 1 Single bedroom, large Living room, immaculate fitted Kitchen and family bathroom and toilet. External The building is surrounded all sides by the tees, fairways and greens of the golf course. To the front a spectacular patio area with seating for approx 50 persons and to the rear a private car park for up to 20 cars( additional car park facilities for at least 80 more cars).

Location:

The business is located off the main A19 Selby road 5 minutes from the A64 turn off. Set in the beautiful grounds of Swallow Hall, a beautiful 27 hole golf course centrally located amongst the 3 beautiful and typical North Yorkshire villages of Wheldrake, Eskrick and Elvington with local shops, primary and secondary schools, post office and doctor's surgery. Elvington is also a popular tourist destination in its own right with regular air shows, displays and motor racing activities including F1 testing. 5 minutes away is the increasingly popular shopping destination in 'the designer's outlet' with regular visitors from as far as Leeds from the south and Scarborough from the north. The Golf course is also only 20 minutes from Historic and 'touristic' York. York is still one of the most popular places to visit in the north with the 'shambles' a popular place to stroll as well as the attraction of the ever increasing numbers of high quality shops and restaurants, the river front and river cruises, not forgetting the world famous York Minster to name but a few attractions to this area.

Other information

Trading hours:

We are advised that the business trades with the benefit of the Premises Licence (not seen) which permits the sale of alcohol during the hours of:

Daily 11am to 11pm

Current opening hours are advised as being:

Mon - Sun (summer) 7am-11pm, (winter) 9am -4pm

NB. Important. Prospective purchasers wishing to continue to operate the public house should ensure that they gain the NCPLH Qualification in readiness for their intended operation of the Public House. Guy Simmonds hold this 1 day NCPLH Course every 2 weeks. Please telephone us to reserve your place or browse the training section of this site.