Unit 1 Acorn Business Park, Danes Road, Staveley, Cumbria LA8 9PL

An opportunity to occupy strategically located, self-contained and interconnected showroom and office unit positioned within a private development forming part of a well positioned Business Centre estate. The flexible accommodation extends to 1,996 sq ft and benefits from road frontage, car parking, loading yard and private access. Offering an opportunity for a single occupiers.


LOCATION

The subject property is situated on Danes Road, the main thoroughfares through the village of Staveley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, in the north west of England. Staveley is an attractive tourist village situated approximately 3.5 miles to the east of Windermere, 4 miles to the north west of Kendal and 12 miles from Junction 36 of the M6 Motorway.

Staveley is strategically placed at the junction of the river Kent and Gowan and located between Kendal and Windermere. The village is situated on the local train line proving train services to Windermere, Kendal and Oxenholme Station which is on the main North West Virgin Train Line with regular services to London Euston, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The settlement is a popular and desirable village with a primary school, a number of public houses and restaurants and specialist retail outlets including Staveley Mill Yard.

Nearby Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere are known as Cumbria's most popular tourist destination and are effectively one large settlement having a resident population of circa 12,173 (2011 Census). The town provides a range of retail and leisure offerings. It is situated in the Lake District National Park which was designated in 1951, is the largest National Park in England and was recently awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status. It covers 2,362 square kilometres following the extension of its boundaries in August 2016 and makes up a third of the total area of Cumbria extending across parts of Eden, Allerdale, South Lakeland and Copeland. The National Park has a population of 41,100 (2011 Census) and attracts approximately 18,410,000 visitors each year with tourism being the major industry. (Source - Lake District National Park).

There is a train and bus station at the northern end of Windermere providing local train services to Kendal and Oxenholme Station which is on the main North West Virgin Train Line as well as regular bus services.

Danes Road is accessed directly from the A591 linking Kendal to Windermere. The village centre is situated approximately half a mile to the north of the A591.


DESCRIPTION

A Business Centre development offering a prominent showroom premises with office space, accessed from the main Danes Road travelling through Staveley providing a private business centre setting with a range of self-contained and interconnected space which is arranged as a mixture of traditional stone showroom and offices and block built workshops beneath pitched slate and profile clad roofs.

Unit 1 is accessed via an attractive front single storey atrium with bespoke glass elevations and roof leading to an open plan showroom, staff room, shower room and workshop at ground floor. A central staircase provide access up to first floor open plan offices, filing room and self-contained office. The showroom benefits from double height ceilings in part, floor to ceiling window display, attractive wood panelling, secondary entrance, track spotlighting and offers flexibility in potential use.

The offices are at first floor and provide open plan with and cellular accommodation including carpeted and wood board flooring, Velux roof lights and suspended strip lighting.

Externally, the car parking, front forecourt and site is laid with tarmacadam/concrete hardstanding and the development is bounded by a mixture of traditional stone walling and timber post and wire fencing within a self-contained and private site.


ACCOMMODATION

It is understood that the premises provide the following approximate internal measurements:

Unit 1

Ground Floor 116.91m² (1,258 sq ft)
First Floor 68.50m2 (737 sq ft)

Total approximate Gross Internal Areas 185.41m² (1,996 sq ft)


SERVICES

The properties are connected to mains electricity (three phase), gas, water and the mains drainage/sewage system.

Prospective occupiers should make their own enquiries as to the services available for future use.


PROPOSAL

The land and property are available by way of new Full Repairing & Insuring leases for a number of years to be agreed and at commencing rental of £28,000 per annum exclusive.


VAT

All figures quoted are exclusive of VAT where applicable.


RATEABLE VALUE

According to the Valuation Office Agency Website, it is understood that the units are assessed together at a Rateable Value of £19,000 and described as showroom, workshop & premises and will therefore need to be re-assessed for business rates purposes if they are subdivided and occupied independently.

Prospective tenants should check the exact rates payable with Westmorland & Furness Council.


ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE

The units have an Energy Performance Asset Rating of D79 and the EPC Certificate is available to download from the Edwin Thompson website.


LEGAL COSTS

Each party is to bear their own legal costs in the preparation and settlement of the lease documentation together with any VAT thereon.


VIEWING

The property is available to view by prior appointment with the Windermere office of Edwin Thompson LLP. Contact:

Joe Ellis at our Windermere office.
Amelia Todd at our Windermere office.


IMPORTANT NOTICE

Edwin Thompson for themselves and for the Vendor of this property, whose Agents they are, give notice that:
1. The particulars are set out as a general outline only for the guidance of intending purchasers and do not constitute, nor constitute part of, any offer or contract.
2. All descriptions, dimensions, plans, reference to condition and necessary conditions for use and occupation and other details are given in good faith and are believed to be correct, but any intending purchasers should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact, but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to their correctness.
3. No person in the employment of Edwin Thompson has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to this property or these particulars, nor to enter into any contract relating to the property on behalf of the Agents, nor into any contract on behalf of the Vendor.
4. No responsibility can be accepted for loss or expense incurred in viewing the property or in any other way in the event of the property being sold or withdrawn.
5. These particulars were prepared in July 2024.