For sale Dovecliff Hall Hotel Stretton Burton upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 0DJ March 2017
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Dovecliff Hall Hotel
Highlights
Location
Description
Accommodation
─ Attractive country house
The hotel is approached via a sweeping drive from Dovecliff Road and occupies an elevated position overlooking open countryside to the front and the River Dove to the rear. Dovecliff Road provides access to the A38 dual carriageway at Stretton, some 3 miles north east of Burton on Trent and 10 miles south west of Derby.
Dovecliff Hall Hotel is a handsome Grade II listed former country house built in 1790 for a local family that later married into the Bass family. The house was bought by the Charrington family in 1897 and later again by Bass at around the time that the Bass and Charrington breweries in Burton upon Trent merged.
Public areas
hotel with 15 large bedrooms ─ Gracious public and
function rooms ─ Elevated site of
approximately 6 acres with formal gardens and extensive river frontage ─ Turnover for y/e 31
December 2016 £864,668
The A38 provides access to the M1 at junctions 24 and 24A via the A50 and the M/A42 via the A511. Birmingham is 35 miles to the south via the A38 and M6 Toll Road. Burton upon Trent has good rail access with a mainline station in the town and is within 20 and 32 miles of East Midlands and Birmingham International Airports respectively. Burton upon Trent, nationally famous for beer brewing and Marmite manufacture, has a population of some 72,000 and Derby has around 250,000.
For sale on the instructions of M Ingram & S Bell of Duff & Phelps Ltd, Joint Administrators of Abbot Grange Ltd
Dovecliff Hall originally opened as a hotel in 1928 but reverted to a private house in 1936 in which use it remained until 1987 when it reopened as a Dovecliff Hall Hotel. The property is constructed of red brick with a stone band at first floor level under a hipped slate roof. The building was extended in around 2003 with the addition of a glazed orangery, function room and a block of bedrooms at the rear. The hotel retains the features and grand rooms of the original house with the modern extensions blending particularly well into the older structure. The hotel is approached along a sweeping drive from Dovecliff Road leading to a car park and the hotel reception at the front of the building.
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Large impressive hallway reception
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Library
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Drawing room
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Bar
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Restaurant leading into the adjoining Orangery
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Cherrington function rooms with partitioning to the adjoining restaurant and air conditioning. Maximum capacity 140 to include the restaurant
Bedrooms ─
5 Garden Rooms
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4 Executive Rooms
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4 Georgian Rooms
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2 Suites
Total 15 The bedrooms are all of a good size with those in the original building being particularly spacious. The five ground floor Garden rooms have outside seating areas overlooking the River Dove. All rooms have ensuite facilities and most enjoy views of the surrounding countryside.
Back of House ─
Kitchen
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Stores
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Chef’s Office
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Cellar
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Staff Bedroom
Externally There are formal gardens to the side of the house overlooking open countryside and the River Dove Valley. The Cherrington and Orangery rooms open onto a terrace and the gardens. A steeply sloping bank leads down to the river where there is space for additional seating and walks. Car park The hotel benefits from a car park to the front of the property.
Services Mains water, electricity and gas are connected. Drainage is to a private system.
Business Rates Information from the VOA website shows the current rateable value as £45,750, with a 2017 draft valuation of £69,750.
The Business Dovecliff Hall Hotel trades as a country house hotel and restaurant that specialises in weddings and other functions for which the setting and facilities are ideally suited. Management accounting information for the year ended 31 December 2016 shows total sales of £864,668, of which just under 30% was generated from accommodation, with an adjusted net operating profit of £184,000 once nonrecurring costs and items relating to the current owners are excluded. Further information is available to seriously interested parties.
Asking Price £1,950,000 for the freehold property to include trade contents and goodwill. Stock is to be purchased at valuation in addition.
Energy Performance Certificate As a listed building an EPC is not required.
VAT All prices and figures quoted exclude VAT where applicable.
For further information please contact: Philip Gibson 0121 609 8689
[email protected] James Williamson 0121 609 8239
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