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New Galloway, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire
Guide Price
£300,000
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Cafe
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Description
Closing date for offers at 12 noon Friday 28th June 2024.
An outstanding and exciting opportunity to acquire a Café/Restaurant and Visitors Centre in the heart of the Galloway Forest Park. Located on A712, close to New Galloway, the subjects are positioned on the eastern shores of Clatteringshaws Loch in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
New Galloway 6 miles, Newton Stewart 12 miles, Dumfries 30 miles, M74/Lockerbie 43 miles, Glasgow 73 miles, Edinburgh 91 miles.
Subjects consisting of an approximate size of 3.95 acres.
EPC Rating E
The property
The subjects consist of a single storey Café/restaurant and visitor centre with car parking and grounds to the north, south and west (to loch side) of the visitor centre.
The premises are stone built lying under a pitch and tile roof. Main entry is via two separate entrances to the south and west side of the
property. This leads into a well fitted café and restaurant premises, consisting of:
Café & Restaurant premises (50 Covers)
Fully fitted commercial kitchen
Servery & customer counter
Store
Office
Unisex toilets
Adjacent to the café premises there is also visitor toilet facilities to include, ladies, gents and disabled toilets.
Exterior
The premise is adjacent to the A712 and well signposted of the main road. Externally the premises has a car park with space for cars and camper vans. There a 6 picnic tables and several benches next to the café/restaurant, which have southwards view over the loch and towards Merrick, the highest peak in the Southern Uplands. National Cycle Route 7 also passes by the visitors’ centre.
Location
The subjects are astride the A712, in the Galloway Forest Park, 12 miles north of Newton Stewart 6 miles west of New Galloway. This is an area of outstanding natural beaty dominated by the Southern Uplands as well as some of richest forests in Scotland.
The area is also renowned for stargazing and in 2009 it was the first area in the world to be dedicated as a dark sky park.
International Dark Sky Places | DarkSky International: International Dark Sky Places | DarkSky International
Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (gsabiosphere.org.uk): Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (gsabiosphere.org.uk)
The village of New Galloway offers a connection north towards Ayr and Glasgow via the A713/A77. The larger town of Newton Stewart offers an easy connection towards Stranraer and the ferry connections towards Northern Ireland. The county town of Dumfries lies 30 miles east offering easy access to the M74 and M6.
Directions
From Glasgow take the M77 then A77 to Ayr. A713 from Ayr to New Galloway before heading west on A712 to the subjects. From Dumfries, take the A75 west, before tasking the A712 from Crocketford.
Rateable Value
We are advised as per Scottish Assessors Website: Café/Visitor Centre - £2,850
Car park – £1,000
The subjects are below the rates payable threshold and are rates exempt.
Internal Sizes
We are advised as per the Scottish Assesors website the internal sizes to include the toilet block is 161.84 sq. m.
Services
Mains electricity, water is from a private borehole supply. Drainage is to a septic tank. There are no mains gas on site.
Viewing:
Strictly by appointment
Closing Date:
A closing date for the offers may be fixed. The seller will not be obliged to accept the highest or any offer for the subjects of sale and reserve the right to withdraw the property from the market at any time.
Offers:
All offers will be assessed on the basis on the best value themes in terms of overall public benefits. To allow assessment of any wider public benefit, interested parties should submit a statement of intent outlying their proposed use of the site and any associated public benefits.
The assessment will take into account whether the proposed use would be likely to improve:
1. Economic Development
2. Regeneration
3. Public Health
4. Social Wellbeing
5. Environmental Wellbeing
6. Inequalities from socio-economic disadvantage
7. Any other benefits that might arise
General
Local Authority: Dumfries & Galloway Council, English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2DD
Tenure: Feuhold (Scottish equivalent of freehold)
Joint Selling Agent:
Cornerstone Business Agents, Bush Estate, Midlothian, EH26 0SD
Guide Price: £300,000
An outstanding and exciting opportunity to acquire a Café/Restaurant and Visitors Centre in the heart of the Galloway Forest Park. Located on A712, close to New Galloway, the subjects are positioned on the eastern shores of Clatteringshaws Loch in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
New Galloway 6 miles, Newton Stewart 12 miles, Dumfries 30 miles, M74/Lockerbie 43 miles, Glasgow 73 miles, Edinburgh 91 miles.
Subjects consisting of an approximate size of 3.95 acres.
EPC Rating E
The property
The subjects consist of a single storey Café/restaurant and visitor centre with car parking and grounds to the north, south and west (to loch side) of the visitor centre.
The premises are stone built lying under a pitch and tile roof. Main entry is via two separate entrances to the south and west side of the
property. This leads into a well fitted café and restaurant premises, consisting of:
Café & Restaurant premises (50 Covers)
Fully fitted commercial kitchen
Servery & customer counter
Store
Office
Unisex toilets
Adjacent to the café premises there is also visitor toilet facilities to include, ladies, gents and disabled toilets.
Exterior
The premise is adjacent to the A712 and well signposted of the main road. Externally the premises has a car park with space for cars and camper vans. There a 6 picnic tables and several benches next to the café/restaurant, which have southwards view over the loch and towards Merrick, the highest peak in the Southern Uplands. National Cycle Route 7 also passes by the visitors’ centre.
Location
The subjects are astride the A712, in the Galloway Forest Park, 12 miles north of Newton Stewart 6 miles west of New Galloway. This is an area of outstanding natural beaty dominated by the Southern Uplands as well as some of richest forests in Scotland.
The area is also renowned for stargazing and in 2009 it was the first area in the world to be dedicated as a dark sky park.
International Dark Sky Places | DarkSky International: International Dark Sky Places | DarkSky International
Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (gsabiosphere.org.uk): Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (gsabiosphere.org.uk)
The village of New Galloway offers a connection north towards Ayr and Glasgow via the A713/A77. The larger town of Newton Stewart offers an easy connection towards Stranraer and the ferry connections towards Northern Ireland. The county town of Dumfries lies 30 miles east offering easy access to the M74 and M6.
Directions
From Glasgow take the M77 then A77 to Ayr. A713 from Ayr to New Galloway before heading west on A712 to the subjects. From Dumfries, take the A75 west, before tasking the A712 from Crocketford.
Rateable Value
We are advised as per Scottish Assessors Website: Café/Visitor Centre - £2,850
Car park – £1,000
The subjects are below the rates payable threshold and are rates exempt.
Internal Sizes
We are advised as per the Scottish Assesors website the internal sizes to include the toilet block is 161.84 sq. m.
Services
Mains electricity, water is from a private borehole supply. Drainage is to a septic tank. There are no mains gas on site.
Viewing:
Strictly by appointment
Closing Date:
A closing date for the offers may be fixed. The seller will not be obliged to accept the highest or any offer for the subjects of sale and reserve the right to withdraw the property from the market at any time.
Offers:
All offers will be assessed on the basis on the best value themes in terms of overall public benefits. To allow assessment of any wider public benefit, interested parties should submit a statement of intent outlying their proposed use of the site and any associated public benefits.
The assessment will take into account whether the proposed use would be likely to improve:
1. Economic Development
2. Regeneration
3. Public Health
4. Social Wellbeing
5. Environmental Wellbeing
6. Inequalities from socio-economic disadvantage
7. Any other benefits that might arise
General
Local Authority: Dumfries & Galloway Council, English Street, Dumfries, DG1 2DD
Tenure: Feuhold (Scottish equivalent of freehold)
Joint Selling Agent:
Cornerstone Business Agents, Bush Estate, Midlothian, EH26 0SD
Guide Price: £300,000
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Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode- Barrhill Station20.5 miles
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Strutt & Parker, Perth
5 St. John Street, Perth, PH1 5SP
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