3503, Retailer, Christmas, Shop, business for sale, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, Preferred Commercial
3503, Retailer, Christmas, Shop, business for sale, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, Preferred Commercial
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Retailer of Christmas Related Goods in Lechlade Gloucestershire
Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England
Advert Ref: 3503
Business Description
Preferred Commercial is delighted to offer for sale this popular retailer of Christmas related goods, which was established in 1984 and which has been in our clients' careful hands since 2003. The business is only now being placed on the market due to our clients' wish to retire. The business operates 7 days a week and generates a turnover in the region of £220,000 per annum with a gross profit of 60% derived from the sale of a wide variety of Christmas decorations including ornaments, lighting, decorations as well as a large range of German products, which include traditional wooden decorations, candles and incense. The shop is run by our clients with the help of three part-time members of staff. The business is well known and highly regarded, and has all year round patronage. The shop has also provided items for television productions including Eastenders and Downton Abbey as well as appearing on breakfast television and in several radio interviews. There is a quality web site in place with e-commerce facilities, which we feel could be developed further. There is also scope to increase marketing activities and to expand into complementary lines such as gift ware. The property boasts 3 bedroom owners' accommodation which is presented to a high standard. We are advised our clients are willing to offer a handover period to new owners. We feel this is a rare opportunity to acquire a thriving business in a niche market, situated in such a delightful location. Early viewing, arranged with Preferred Commercial, must come highly recommended.
Business Status
For Sale
Property
Freehold
Location
The Christmas Shop occupies a prominent position on the High Street in the delightful Cotswold town of Lechlade. The shop occupies a Grade II listed property with ample free on-road parking and benefits from a high footfall and much passing trade. The picturesque town of Lechlade is popular with tourists and the many river based activities draw further visitors. The town is situated on the River Thames, at the crossroads of the A417 and A361. The area is a desirable place in which to live and work with many notable residents living in the surrounding villages. Swindon lies 10 miles to the south, while Cirencester is 11 miles to the west and Faringdon is just 6 miles away.
Premises Details
Well-presented 2-storey Grade II listed property with 3 bedroom owners' accommodation and purpose built single storey retail area. Briefly comprising:
Ground Floor
• Retail area with carpeted floor and spotlights to ceiling, display shelving to perimeter walls, large window displays, 2 x large central display stands, counter servery with electronic cash register and card terminal
• Spacious storeroom to rear with shelving to suit
• Utility room, currently used as storage
• Kitchen with a range of fitted wall and base units, oven and integrated dishwasher
• Large office
• Lounge with open fireplace and exposed beams
• Dining room with inglenook fireplace
First Floor
• 3 x double bedrooms
• Bathroom with bath, shower, WC and wash basin
• Separate WC and wash basin
Second Floor
• Attic room accessed by fixed staircase, with skylight, currently used as storage but could be converted into living space
External
• Enclosed rear courtyard with covered wood store
Trading Hours
Mon - Sat: 10.00am - 5.00pm Sun: 11.00am - 5.00pm Open weekends only from January to Easter
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Places to see in ( Lechlade - UK )
Places to see in ( Lechlade - UK )
Lechlade, or Lechlade-on-Thames, is a town at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable. The town is named after the River Leach that joins the Thames near The Trout Inn.
The town is a popular venue for tourism and river-based activities. There are several pubs, some antique shops, a convenience store, food outlets, a garden centre and a Christmas shop. Near the 15th century Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence, in the centre of the town, there is a large open space which is now a car park. The main roads through the town are busy, as the town is at the crossroads of the A417 and A361. Where the A361 enters the town from the south it crosses the River Thames on Halfpenny Bridge. Another tributary of the Thames, the River Coln, joins the Thames at the Inglesham Round House. Lechlade has hosted a music festival since 2011.
Lechlade falls in the Kempsford–Lechlade electoral ward. This ward stretches from Lechlade in the east to Kempsford in the west. The total population of this ward taken from the 2011 census was 3,973. Although in Gloucestershire, and traditionally in the hundred of Brightwells Barrow, from 1894 till 1935 the town was administered as part of Faringdon Rural District in Oxfordshire. From 1935 till 1974 it was part of Cirencester Rural District in Gloucestershire, and since 1974 it has been a part of Cotswold District.
Lechlade is the highest town to which the River Thames is navigable by relatively large craft including narrowboats. It is possible to travel by river or on foot from here to London. Indeed, in the early eighteenth century goods unloaded in Bristol were transported to Gloucester, carried overland to Lechlade and sent down the Thames to London. The Halfpenny Bridge is therefore the usual start for a water based Thames meander – the term for a long distance journey down the Thames. The Thames Path also continues upstream to the traditional source of the Thames at Thames Head). The river is actually navigable for a short distance further upstream, near the village of Inglesham, where the Thames and Severn Canal joins the River Thames. Rowing boats can reach even further upstream, to Cricklade. Lechlade is a popular resort for Thames boating. Boats of different types can be hired from here, from rowing boats to river cruisers.
Lechlade has a number of youth activities, most of them centred on the Memorial Hall and the adjacent Lechlade Pavilion Hall. Behind the Town Hall are large playing fields, an astro turf pitch, a skate park and a playground.
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Lechlade on Thames In The Cotswolds.
Lechlade, or Lechlade-on-Thames, is a town at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable. The town is named after the River Leach that joins the Thames near The Trout Inn.
The town is a popular venue for tourism and river-based activities. There are several pubs, some antique shops, a convenience store, food outlets, a garden centre and a Christmas shop. Near the 15th century Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence, in the centre of the town, there is a large open space which is now a car park. The main roads through the town are busy, as the town is at the crossroads of the A417 and A361. Where the A361 enters the town from the south it crosses the River Thames on Halfpenny Bridge. Another tributary of the Thames, the River Coln, joins the Thames at the Inglesham Round House. Lechlade has hosted a music festival since 2011. In 2015 the festival's headline act was Status Quo.
Lechlade is the highest town to which the River Thames is navigable by relatively large craft including narrowboats. It is possible to travel by river or on foot from here to London. Indeed, in the early eighteenth century goods unloaded in Bristol were transported to Gloucester, carried overland to Lechlade and sent down the Thames to London. The Halfpenny Bridge is therefore the usual start for a water based Thames meander – the term for a long distance journey down the Thames. The Thames Path also continues upstream to the traditional source of the Thames at Thames Head). The river is actually navigable for a short distance further upstream, near the village of Inglesham, where the Thames and Severn Canal joins the River Thames. Rowing boats can reach even further upstream, to Cricklade. Lechlade is a popular resort for Thames boating. Boats of different types can be hired from here, from rowing boats to river cruisers.
The highest lock on the Thames is St John's Lock, at Lechlade, where there is a statue of Old Father Thames overlooking the boating activities. There is a view from St John's Bridge across the lock and the meadows to the spire of St Lawrence's parish church. The River Leach flows into the Thames at St John's Bridge. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley composed A Summer Evening Churchyard here which includes the lines Clothing in hues of heaven thy dim and distant spire Around whose lessening and invisible height Gather among the stars the clouds of night.
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Often referred to as the Jewel of the Cotswolds, Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment. The broad way is the wide grass-fringed main street, centred on the Green, which is lined with red chestnut trees and honey-coloured Cotswold limestone buildings, many dating from the 16th century.
Broadway is known for its association with the Arts and Crafts movement, and is situated in an area of outstanding scenery and conservation. The wide High Street is lined with a wide variety of shops and cafes, many housed in listed buildings. The village is overlooked by Broadway Hill, the highest point in the northern Cotswolds at 1,024 ft (312 m) above sea level, which is popular with hill walkers.
Today, Broadway is a centre for arts and antiques and serves as a natural base from which to explore the Cotswolds or see the horse racing during the busy Cheltenham Gold Cup week. Tourism is important – the village is well-served with hotels, including the Broadway Hotel, Russell's a restaurant with rooms, the 1600s Cotswold inn the Lygon Arms, a caravan site, holiday cottages, bed and breakfast lodges, old pubs including the Swan Inn and Crown & Trumpet, shops, restaurants and tea rooms.
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Broadway was once served by a railway line, a relative latecomer in British railway history, opened in 1904 by the Great Western Railway and running from Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham, part of a main line from Birmingham to the South West and South Wales. Broadway railway station along with almost all others on this section closed in 1960. Thus, although Broadway has a railway station site and a Station Road, it is no longer served by National Rail services. The nearest railway stations are Evesham, Honeybourne and Moreton-in-Marsh, on the main line train service running between Hereford and London Paddington station and on the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester.
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