Garden Garage Open fire Off-street parking Central heating No Chain

Barochan House is a large 4 bedroomed detached victorian house in excellent order and is for sale along with our business offering someone the opportunity to move to the beautiful West Coast of Scotland and enjoy a superb quality of life and great business. The business is an established bookshop in freehold premises 4 minutes walk from the house. We have an internet side selling books across all the major sites and presently the high street and internet combined give a turnover of around £100,000pa with a healthy profit margin. In the shop we sell new, second hand, and antiquarian books.

The House:

The house benefits from full gas central heating, fully insulated loft, sash windows all professionally upgraded with draught proofing etc. It is stone built around 1855, has a damp course, gardens, garage, loads of character and great style. The location is peaceful with a lovely outlook across a green with cherry trees and attractive flower beds.

Ground Floor:

Vestibule and Hall - A beautiful entrance to a solid and elegant house. The solid stone stairs to the first floor are at the far end of the hall and are graced by the original Victorian bannister rail and cast iron decorative supports. A victorian decorative arch is overhead and a very large sash window illuminates the staircase. Fitted carpet.

Lounge. Dimensions: 20' x 15' 10" - A beautiful room with sash window, 3 double sockets, TV point, 2 radiators, fireplace with electric fire, fitted carpet and picture rails. A superb room for entertaining or for just relaxing. Overlooks the Green at the front. Fitted carpet

Dining Room. Dimensions: 15' x 13'6" - A pleasant airy light room with an open fireplace and built in cupboard. There are two radiators, and two double sockets, an attractive central light fiting (which we shall be leaving with the house) and a fitted carpet

Study Dimensions: 15' x 15'4" - The Study is another lovely room with a large built in bookcase, the usual sash window (overlooking the back gardens) 4 double sockets, picture rails, a radiator, fitted carpet and built in light up display cupboard. Before we bought the house the room was used as a bedroom for an elderly relative and described as a 'ground floor back bedroom'

Kitchen. Dimensions: 14' x 15'6" - We have a large family Kitchen in a rustic farmhouse style, range style cooker, all the other appliances (dishwasher, microwave and fridge) are hidden in cupboards to maintain the 'nod to the past' look. The flooring is slate, thereis a large walk in pantry, 5 double sockets, a TV point and access door to the scullery where there is plumbing for the washing machine and a further socket. There is also a clothes airer, and some unusual features such as a wall lined with wine corks an attractive plate rack and a panneled ceiling with sunk in lighting. The wall mounted central heating boiler is also in the kitchen again concealed within a cupboard. The boiler is two years old.

WC/Cloakroom. The cloakroom leads off the hall into the spacious downstairs toilet with wash hand basin.

First Floor:

Landing - The Landing is spacious and light over looking the large sash window at the turn of the stairs.

Bedroom 1 Dimensions: 18'7" x 14'10" - A lovely large light airy room with two sash windows, two radiators, two built in cupboards with light up display tops and an intersting 'Art-Nouveau fireplace. The Ceiling is corniced and there are wall lights as well as the central light

Bedroom 2 Dimensions: 19'6" x 14'10" - A lovely sunny room with two sash windows. We use this room as our guest bedroom. As well as the usual features it also has a vanity unit and shaver point.

Bedroom 3 Dimensions: 15'3" x 13' - Both bedroom 3 & 4 are similar in layout. Both have two built in cupboards and one sash window. Our daughters room (shown) is a great 'girlie' room decorated in pink and lilacs. Our Sons room is in black & White (largely white with black trims)

Bedroom 4 Dimensions: 15'3" x 13'.

Boxroom Dimensions: 15'3" x 5' -The Boxroom is shelved on both long sides and also has large deep drawers. We use the shelving for storing books and packing materials. Access to the loft which is fully insulated and partly boarded is from here

Bathroom Dimensions: 15'3" x 5' -The bathroom is long and thin and contains an Avocado suite, heated towel rail, shower over the bath, toilet, wash basin, wall mirrors and shaver point. It is functional and clean but is one area that could do with updating we just haven't had the time!

Externally:

The Gardens: Dimensions: 80' x 50'

The back garden is completely enclosed with 8' high stone walls and is packed with interesting plants. The design dates back to the early twentieth century and is laid out with gravel paths and two lawns. The top lawn is diamond shaped and the one nearer the house rectangular with washing lines. Against the bottom wall is a lean-to Greenhouse with 3 mature grape vines and a Passion flower.

The Garage
Dimensions: 9' x 30' + Small Room at the back 9' x 12'

The garage is entered from the front by an 'up and over' door to the side of the house or from the garden through a standard wooden door. It has two double sockets in the 'workshop' area and two more in the room at the Aviary end. It also has two electric lights and a sensor Halogen light fitted above the main door. The Workshop area has some worktop and old kitchen units to house tools etc.

The Shop: Dimensions: 12' x 29' (350 sq feet)

What we are offering for sale is:

1. Freehold Shop Unit (8 Cross Street) of 350sq feet.

2. All Fixtures and Fittings to include the till, streamline card machine, PC (6 Months Old), Printer, Desk Chair. packing materials etc.

3. Stock as valued. (We are happy to negotiate here) we presently have around £80,000 worth at retail.

The Old Bookshelf was started in 2000 to meet a perceived need locally for a quality mixed stock bookshop alongside an internet business.

Year on year increases in all aspects of the trade have led to a steady expansion in stock and custom both on the internet and the high street. We stock new, remaindered, second hand and antiquarian books with prices between £1.99 and £300.00 we have sold books up to £3500 but they don't come our way that often!

A statement of account will be made available to serious enquirers but turnover is presently around £100,000 pa and thanks to the internet the sky really is the the limit. We presently take £300-£400 a week as drawings (wages) plus an allowance we save for the annual tax bill. The business also pays for our car as we run a Peuguot Partner Combi, ideal for collecting books.

The Old Bookshelf is not difficult to run, cataloguing is done with the click of a barcode scanner and pricing relates to market demand and so is not difficult to sort out. We are VAT registered and as such are net recievers as books are zero rated so we don't actually pay VAT. We are happy to offer advice on all aspects of running the business to the successful buyers.

For more info and pictures do visit the website www.chanceforyou.co.uk.

We are happy to arrange viewings and are not at present using an agency.