For Sale9 Bedroom House in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, PO37£625,000

An excellent opportunity has arisen to purchase the attractive Grange Bank House in the centre of Shanklin Old Village and continue the thriving and very highly thought of licenced bed and breakfast business with its top rating on TripAdvisor. This extended Victorian property has been sensitively updated by the current owners but still includes delightful period features such as high and coved ceilings, fireplaces, dado and picture rails as well as the original staircase. There is a self-contained owners’ accommodation with two double bedrooms, nine en-suite guest rooms including one with two bedrooms and visitor dining and sitting rooms together with a garage and a recently installed resin driveway where you can park up to nine cars. The guest house is set back from the road with a raised front lawn, shrub borders and a low wall flanking the drive that leads to the garage and the front porch with its charming wrought iron feature. The front door opens into the welcoming hall and the first room you come to is the bright and spacious guest dining room with a veritable wall of windows providing plenty of natural light. Next door is the warm and friendly lounge with a delightful cast iron fireplace and white mantlepiece as a focal point as well as open access to the charming sunroom that has French doors to the front garden. Also on the ground floor are two double guest rooms with fitted cupboards and en suite showers that are particularly ideal for guests who find the stairs difficult. The rest of the ground floor is currently designed as the current owners’ domain but obviously this more modern and flexible accommodation could be altered dependent on future requirements. It includes a separate entrance and a relaxing lounge/dining room with patio doors to the lower resin terrace as well as two double bedrooms, a bathroom, office and kitchen with an adjacent utility room. The kitchen provides appropriate facilities as a commercial kitchen for daily breakfasts but also as a ‘family’ kitchen for the rest of the day. It includes a Rangemaster cooker, a separate gas hob, grill and deep fat fryer as well as a hot cupboard to keep plates of food warm, two microwaves, an American fridge freezer, a new commercial dishwasher and a separate raw meat fridge. Off the first-floor galleried landing there are seven bedrooms including a family suite with a double and single room as well as a bathroom, two large doubles with en suite showers and fitted cupboards, two standard en suite doubles and two en suite singles. All the rooms are individually designed and create a family friendly ‘home-from-home’ atmosphere. Outside there are steps up to a circular resin patio that is surrounded by mature shrubs and trees and a circular artificial turn lawn providing pleasant places for both owners and guests to enjoy relaxing in the sunshine. The garage is partitioned to provide a secondary utility room with a commercial dryer and a large chest freezer as well as plenty of storage in the roof space.