Hillis Gate Road, Cowes

A unique opportunity to purchase a boutique holiday letting business “Tiny Homes Holidays” comprising 6 architecturally designed eco lodges with ancillary property including a large studio/yoga barn, all set within 2.08 acres.

Situation - Tiny Homes is situated on the outskirts of the village of Gurnard and the seaport town of Cowes. The position of the property is off Hillis Gate Road, surrounded by woodland and rural countryside. The property is within proximity to public footpaths, local pubs and approximately 2.9 miles from Gurnard seafront. The property is within close proximity to mainland ferry links with the closest (East Cowes – Southampton) only an 18-minute drive.

The Isle of Wight is celebrated as an international yachting and sailing venue, with the annual Cowes Week Regatta in August attracting competitors from all over the world. A full range of yacht and sailing clubs provide a social hub. There are nearby golf courses including Westridge, St Georges & Shanklin and Sandown Golf Club.

Ryde School with Upper Chine is the main independent (HMC) School on the Island, offering co-education from pre-school to sixth form on a daily, full or weekly boarding basis. Many Island children commute to mainland schools such as Portsmouth Grammar, St Edward’s and Hordle Walhampton Prep and there are good feeder links to conveniently located public schools such as Winchester College and St Swithuns’ in Winchester, Bryanston, Canford, and the Sherborne schools in Dorset and Marlborough College in Wiltshire.

The Island is blessed with a number of boutique hotels and restaurants, including The George in Yarmouth, The Royal in Ventnor, The Hut, Colwell Bay and The Smoking Lobster Cowes.

Description - Tiny Homes, established by the current vendors has been a successful unique, off-grid holiday letting business on the Isle of Wight. There are 6 architecturally designed, Eco Lodges, with a contemporary rustic influence comprising:

Eilidh – A eco lodge, with rough natural larch cladding, sleeping four with its own outside decking area comprising:
Ground Floor
• Galley Kitchen
• Lounge with wood burning stove.
• Shower room and W/C
First Floor – accessed via ladder.
• Bedroom
• Ancillary mezzanine space

Kindred – An eco lodge, with natural cedar cladding, sleeping four with its own outside decking area comprising:
Ground Floor
• Lounge with wood burning stove.
• Kitchen
• Shower room/ WC
First Floor – accessed via ladder.
• Bedroom
• Ancillary mezzanine space

Silva – An eco lodge, with natural cedar cladding, sleeping four with its own outside decking and bathing area comprising:
Ground Floor
• Lounge with wood burning stove.
• Galley Kitchen
• Shower-room/WC
First Floor – accessed via ladder.
• Bedroom

Hygge – An eco lodge, with stained larch cladding, cabin sleeping four with its own outside decking area comprising:
Ground Floor
• Lounge with wood burning stove.
• Galley Kitchen
• Shower-room/WC
First Floor – accessed via ladder.
• Bedroom
• Ancillary mezzanine space

Saoirse – An eco lodge, with natural larch cladding, sleeping four
with its own outside decking area comprising:
Ground Floor
• Lounge with wood burning stove.
• Kitchen
• Shower-room/WC
First Floor – accessed via ladder.
• Bedrooms x2

Keith – An eco lodge, with Siberian larch cladding, sleeping four
with its own outside decking area comprising:
Ground Floor
• Lounge with wood burning stove.
• Kitchen
• Shower-room/WC
First Floor
• Architecturally designed cantilevered sleeping pod

General Remarks And Stipulations -

Method Of Sale - Tiny Homes is offered for sale by private treaty as a whole.

Tenure - Freehold.

Access - The property is accessed directly from the public highway, Hillis Gate Road via two separate entrances.

Services - The property is connected to mains water and electric, private drainage system (Klargester) for the ancillary buildings and vintage caravan.

The Tiny Homes are connected to solar lighting and USB sockets, LPG gas, woodburning stoves , composting ‘diverter’ toilets, individual reed beds and rainwater harvesting.

The cabins also have facility to be connected to mains power to help in winter months.

Website -

Company - The business, Tiny Homes Holiday Limited could be available to purchase by separate negotiation.

Accounts/Trading Information - Further accounts information including full management accounts are available from the selling agents upon request.

Goodwill & Stock At Valuation - Should a prospective purchaser wish to purchase the company, separate from the freehold, a list of items included in the goodwill & stock at valuation can be made available from the selling agents upon request.

Postcode - PO30 5UB

Building Regulations - The lodges benefit from building control approval. Further details are available from the selling agents.

Wayleaves And Easements - The property is being sold subject to and with the benefit of all rights including rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, drainage, water and electricity supplies and other rights and obligations, easements and quasi-easements and restrictive covenants and all existing and proposed wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cables, drains, water and gas and other pipes whether referred to in these particulars or not.

Tupe - Should a Purchaser be interested in purchasing the freehold property and the existing business, they will be required to inherit any existing employees currently employed by the business. Further details can be made available from the selling agents.

Broadband - Up to 5 MBS.

Planning - The property is outside of the Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Property is not listed. There is a planning condition that confirms that each lodge cannot be sold away separately. The lodges can be occupied for 365 days a year so long as the owner keeps 6-weekly records.

Local Authority - Isle of Wight Council

Public Rights Of Way - There are no public or private rights of way across property.

Postcode - PO30 5UB

What3words - splashes.rips.frail

Council Tax And Business Rates - Council Tax Band – n/a
Business Rates – n/a

Epc - An exemption letter is available from the selling agents.

Plans, Areas And Schedules - These are based on the Ordnance Survey and are for reference only. They have been checked and computed by BCM and the Purchaser (s) shall be deemed to have satisfied themselves as to the description of the property. Any error or miss-statement shall not annul a sale or entitle any party to compensation in respect thereof.

Fixtures And Fittings - BCM will supply a list, on request, identifying clearly which items are included within the sale price, and those that are excluded from the sale price but could be available by separate negotiation. This list is the sole arbiter of this regardless of whether items are referred to or photographed within these particulars.

Viewings - Viewings strictly by appointment with BCM.

Selling Agent - BCM, Isle of Wight office Red Barn, Cheeks Farm, Merstone Lane, Merstone, Isle of Wight, PO30 3DE