Description
A former antiques centre building of single storey construction under a pitched and part flat roof with a 2-storey attached residential property, with wood clad and stone elevations under a pitched roof. The property benefits from generous external areas with hard-standing car park to the front and large private garden to rear overlooking open countryside. Within the plot is a good sized detached secure barn building and workshop/storage facilities. The plot extends to approximately 1.23 acres.

Viewings
The business is closed so we recommend interested parties visit the site for an external inspection from the car-park in the first instance. Formal viewings can be arranged by appointment via the sole selling agents, Savills (Southampton) on +442380 713900 or email Chris Bickle on cbickle@savills.com.

Terms
Freehold. Titles ON208609 (0.45 acres) and ON208610 (0.78 acres). Freehold offers are invited in excess of £1,500,000. VAT may be applicable.

Property and Business Background
We understand the property to the front of the site was originally built as restaurant in the late 1960s and became a branded restaurant during the1980s to 1990s. The property was operating as The Quiet Woman Antiques Centre for approximately 25 years but ceased trading in October 2022.

Energy Performance Cerficate
D-94.

Commercial Description
The commercial premises are located on the ground floor and comprise an open plan area, office and customer WCs. The space benefits from multiple points of entry and exit.

Living Accommodation
The property is attached to the commercial element at ground floor level only. The ground floor provides three distinct spaces including kitchen/dining and a living room leading to a covered decked balcony. The first floor provides four bedrooms (two of which have balconies at the front and rear) and a bathroom.
The residential property's external areas and garden which overlooks open countryside extend to approximately 0.59 acre.

External Areas and Outbuilding
Located to the east of the main building is a substantial L-shaped rectangular timber frame barn with wood panel elevations under pitched corrugated cement roofing sheets. The space provides two units (approximately 1,798 FT2 and 797 FT2 each) with independent storage and entrances (the rear unit having fenestration to the gravel service yard, which has an approximate area of 318 M2 (3,423 FT2).

Planning Permission
West Oxfordshire District Council has granted planning permission for the conversion of existing Antiques Store to a restaurant with separate event room. External works to include alterations to fenestration and associated hard and soft landscaping. REF 22/03538/FUL. The development permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of the permission (6th April 2023).
Plans are available upon request.

Rateable Value & Council Tax
The commercial property is entered in the 2023 Rating List with a Rateable Value of £23,000. This not the rates payable; the small business multiplier is 49.9p/£.
The residential property is within West Oxfordshire Council Tax Band C.

Planning & Conservation
The property is located approximately 0.9 miles south-east and outside of the designated boundary of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is not in Green Belt nor listed.
Under the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) we understand the property benefits from a primary Class E use (retail) with ancillary uses including a residential dwelling, tearoom, barn and workshop.
We recommend interested parties satisfy themselves on all matters pertaining to planning and alternative uses.