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New free-of-tie lease for profitable Essex pub
Leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips has concluded the letting of the Fusilier, and immaculately refurbished and profitable pub in Essex. Located in the Essex village of Great Bentley, the Fusilier boasts...
Essex guest house and three bedroom home sold
Leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips is proud to announce the sale of the Courtyard Rooms in Brightlingsea, Essex, off a freehold asking price of £525,000. The Courtyard Rooms occupies a prominent Georgian...
New to market: Profitable pub with hotel rooms
Leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips has announced that the hugely successful Labouring Man situated in Coldwaltham has come to market. Centrally within the West Sussex village of Coldwaltham, the...
Popular community pub in Kent for sale
The Chequers in Crockenhill, a popular community pub close to Swanley has been brought to market by leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips. Crockenhill is a charming village situated on the Kent boarder with...
Sidney Phillips aid in Trust Inns Derbyshire disposal
The Devonshire Arms, a closed community pub in the Derbyshire village of Somercotes, Alfreton, has been sold through specialist public house agents Sidney Phillips. The property can be found on Somercotes Hill, located...
Sold by Sidney Phillips: Popular Rhyl destination Inn
The Cob & Pen in Rhyl has been sold by licensed trade specialists Sidney Phillips. The freehold asking price was £450,000 and was purchased by a private individual hailing from the Rhyl area. The sizeable and prominent...
Renowned St. Leonards-on-Sea pub hits the market
Leisure and hospitality specialists, in conjunction with AW Gore & Co have announced that the Horse & Groom, one of St. Leonards-on-Sea’s best-known pubs is now available for sale. The Horse & Groom is situated in a...
Central Lincolnshire pub and restaurant sells again
The Plough, a popular community public house situated in the central Lincolnshire village of Walcott, has once again sold through specialist pub agents Sidney Phillips. The property is situated in the quaint...
Skegness guest house sold by Sidney Phillips
The Linroy Guest House, an established guest house that had been under the same ownership since 2005, has been sold through licensed property specialists Sidney Phillips. Located on Lumley Avenue just off the Skegness...
Local Produce Champions: Sun & Slipper in Mamble
Sean Fletcher, Good Morning Britain host, has recently undertaken a filming project, described as a ‘treat for food fanatics’. The series, Food Fest Wales, available on BBC iPlayer, puts a microscope on the interest in...
Sold by Sidney Phillips: Wrexham village public house
The Trotting Mare in Overton has been sold through Sidney Phillips’ North West office. The public house is situated on a prominent roadside position astride the Welsh/Shropshire border surrounded by beautiful scenery....
Cheshire public house for sale close to the Peak District
Sidney Phillips is marketing the freehold interest of St Dunstan’s Inn, an established and popular public house located in Langley. The village, a semi-rural in the civil parish of Sutton, East Cheshire, is close to...
Popping out for a pint: the dying art of just being in a busy world
A few months ago we wrote a blog about the ‘cost of living crises’ through the lens of the licensed trade. We penned, ‘the licensed trade time and time again shows itself as a robust and confident industry’ and although...
Rye, East Sussex is crowned one of the six top places to go in Europe in 2023
In November 2022, Fodor’s Travel released its ‘Go List’ featuring its top six European travel destinations for 2023. The publication, which has provided expert travel advice for 80 years, recommended Rye for ‘easing...
Sidney Phillips sell Northamptonshire village pub
The Three Cranes, Cransley, has been sold through the Eastern Counties office of specialist pub agents Sidney Phillips. The Three Cranes is situated on the junction of Loddington Road and Church Lane, the only public...
Kent free-of-tie pub let to experienced operators
Acting on behalf of Wellington Pub Company, leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips has successfully let the Kings Arms in Meopham on a new free-of-tie lease. The Kings Arms occupies a prominent village green...
Need help with last minute New Years Eve plans? Sidney Phillips' staff give their top picks
Here at Sidney Phillips, we’re not only enthusiastic about the licensed business we’re selling, we’re also passionate about the pubs, bars, hotels and leisure units in which we spend many an (out of office) hour. As we...
London Calling? Sidney Phillips’ licensed business opportunities
This week something in the licensed business news cycle beaked - sorry, piqued our interest; KFC had opened its first ever pub in London . The pub, named ‘The Colonel’s Arms’ in Hammersmith was designed to give...
Sold by Sidney Phillips: 22-bedroom Anglesey hotel
Sidney Phillips’ North West office has sold The Bull Hotel (asking price of £395,000) to Harvmarch Limited, a multiple operator who has a number of successful hotel businesses in North Wales and South Yorkshire....
Sold by Sidney Phillips: Traditional Peterborough pub
Sidney Phillips’ Eastern Counties office have sold the Nags Head, Eastrea, Cambridgeshire off a freehold asking price of £295,000. Zaine Lamont, Regional Valuations Manager for the Eastern Counties handled the sale and...
Norfolk pub and campsite changes hands
Leisure and hospitality specialist Sidney Phillips has completed the leasehold assignment of the Queens Head in Foulsham, a public house benefiting from a plot of around 1.3 acres which also includes a certified...
A notable influx of interest in Welsh seaside pubs, restaurants and hotels
Sidney Phillips has recently noticed an increase in popularity of the West and Mid Wales coastline, not only from the lens of being leisure and hospitality specialists selling the pubs, restaurants and hotels that...
The perfect match: pubs and football fixtures
We know it won’t be news to hear that, as an established firm that has grown since 1898 to serve the licensed trade throughout England and Wales, we are well aware that the 2022 FIFA World Cup is underway. We are also...
Fuel to the fire: the cost-of-living crisis and the impact on the hospitality trade
This summer, four psychiatrists published an academic journal illuminating the fact that ‘overexposure to COVID-19 information’ was amplifying emotional distress. The article spoke of ‘an infodemic’ accompanying the...