Leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips has announced that the Wheatsheaf Inn in the Cumbrian village of Abbeytown is now available for sale.
Abbeytown stands on the Solway plain midway between Wigton and Silloth. Looking south there are views of distant Lakeland Fells and Skiddaw, looking north there are views of the Solway and Scottish hills.
The Wheatsheaf Inn is one of 14 Redfern Public Houses which were built in the 1930's by Harry Redfern. He was responsible for designing, in an imaginative and varied manner, a number of notable public houses in the Carlisle district under the auspices, as chief architect, of the Home Office State Management Scheme (SMS). The SMS built fourteen New Model Inns to Redfern's designs, with a strong theme of the Arts and Crafts movement.
He was commemorated towards the end of his work for the SMS by the naming of the Redfern Inn (1938), one of the distinctive New Model Inn designs, in Etterby, a district of Carlisle. The Wheatsheaf although modernised and extended by the current owners is still a Redfern Pub, with its recognisable Mansard roof and dormer windows.
The property benefits from three trade spaces, a beer garden, car park and two bedroom owner’s accommodation. The business is supported by locals and passing tourists an able operator could increase business and develop a food destination trade.
The freehold interest is available off an asking price of £325,000.
For further information about this pub for sale, other pubs for sale or to let or how to buy a business please call Sidney Phillips on 01434 607841, or email north@sidneyphillips.co.uk.
(January 2022)