Key features:
- Freehold Grade II listed property with family home
- Same ownership for 20 years, genuine retirement sale
- Trades only 5 days a week, closes by 8.30pm
- No home deliveries — clear scope to introduce them
- Adjacent dormant pizza shop plus further convertible space
A substantial Grade II listed freehold fish & chip business in a prominent Woodbridge village position, held in the same family ownership for twenty years and now offered with retirement in mind. The shop trades just five days a week and closes by 8.30pm with no home deliveries — yet still produces a regular high turnover (full figures available from Rosens). Alongside the main shop sits a currently dormant pizza unit, a further convertible space, and an outstanding self-contained three- to four-bedroom family home full of period charm.
Trading figures:
The shop produces a regular high turnover (full details available from Rosens) on just five trading days a week, with the last service finishing by 8.30pm and no home deliveries running. The headline opportunity is one of expansion rather than recovery: the adjacent pizza shop is not currently trading and could be reinstated or repurposed for another cuisine, and a further area presently used as a sitting room could be converted to an additional offering such as Chinese. Extending the opening pattern and introducing a home delivery service would represent a substantial uplift on what the business already turns over part-time.
Trade equipment:
The headline item is a four-pan Ellidge & Fairley counter range, supported by well-maintained ancillary kit throughout the building. Also included: a 56lb peeler, chipper, four chest freezers, cash register, three microwave ovens, two fridges, oil filter, two under-counter fridges, stainless-steel fish keeper, dishwasher, pizza oven, salad bar, griddle, CCTV system and the usual trade items.
Special remarks:
A genuinely unusual freehold concern combining a long-established and well-regarded fish & chip business, two further trading spaces with clear repurposing potential, and an immaculate period family home — all under one Grade II listed roof. The current owners purchased the business twenty years ago and are now selling due to pending retirement, having deliberately run the shop on a restricted five-day pattern with no deliveries. For the right buyer, the upside is unusually clear: extend the trading hours, reinstate the pizza offering, add deliveries, and the business has obvious headroom on what is already a strong turnover. Inspection will confirm both the quality of the property and the genuine scope to grow the takings further.
