Reason for Selling:
The vendor wishes to retire.
Overview of the Business:
This is a well known and highly respected freehold care home and day care center, which provides specialist care to adults with learning disabilities. The care home was established in 1988 by the owner and in 2002 extended to create all single accommodation together with a separate purpose built day care skills center on the site, to provide non residential services for adults with a learning disability. The care home operates from a beautifully appointed Victorian house providing 12 fully licensed bedrooms for local authority placed individuals aged from 18 - 65. Full 24 hour continual care is provided including all meals and pack lunches by a team of qualified and skilled staff for learning disabilities such as Downs Syndrome. The home is in good working order with all of the necessary health & safety and hygiene standards meeting with local authority approval, together with all the essential disabled facilities in place. The home has an excellent working relationship with the local authorities and has a first class name and reputation built up over the years. The day care center is a separate, fully secured and alarmed, purpose built single story building on the site which can cater for 12 attendees at any one time. The center cares for adults with learning disabilities and shows them how to cope with daily living skills such as socializing, meal preparation and using local transport plus many other essential life skills.
Property Features and Assets:
There are two main premises; The Care Home and The Day Care Center. The Care Home is an imposing 19th century Victorian house with a reception hall and large residents lounge downstairs. There is also a fully functional and well equipped kitchen and a dining room for seating 12 adults. There are 8 bedrooms downstairs (presently 1 en suite is utilized as an office but this could easily be returned to bedroom status), a disability assisted bathroom, 3 toilets, a sluice/store room, and a laundry room with commercial washing machines (leased). Upstairs there are 2 x bathrooms (1 with bath, 1 with shower) with toilets and 4 x bedrooms, plus a staff sleep over room. The building has Gas central heating with 2 central heating boiler rooms outside (the extension having a separate boiler). There is a utility yard for refuse at the back of the building and there is ample car parking available. Outside there are well manicured gardens for use in the summer. The Day Care Center is a single story building that was purpose built in 2002 to care for up to 12 adults. It has a main entrance area with ample car parking. Inside the building is a reception hall, an office, disabled toilet with shower facility, a further toilet, and a store room. The reception area leads to the main activities area including a kitchenette with cooker, washing machine and fridge for the development of daily skills, together with further space for dining and activities. There is a quiet room which is used for watching TV, reading books and for discussion groups. The properties at current market value are circa £1,000,000.
Market Competition and Expansion:
N.A.
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