For Sale - B&B With licensed Restaurant Near Loch Ness Scotland

Description

A fantastic opportunity to purchase a long-established guest house at a reasonable price, with a substantial inventory of high-end fixtures and fittings included.
This is a true retirement sale after many years of successful trade in the same hands.
Early viewing is strongly recommended.
With advance bookings on the rooms, there is a good regular seasonal repeat & referral guest base.
This quaint rural licenced bed and breakfast provides a fantastic lifestyle change for those who want it, as well as a unique opportunity to purchase a free house residence. 
A turnkey operation, This easily-managed business currently operates 5 letting rooms, all with en-suite facilities, two rooms have out side entrances with private patio, the double suite is accessed from the garden door, along with the mezzinine double, there is a self catering one bedroom, double mezzanine suite to the front of the property and ample off road parking, owners accommodation with private garden, laundry (if you do not wish to use the laundry service,) and pantry.
A good-sized commercial kitchen that is fitted and equipped with everything you need to run a bed and breakfast for up to ten guests, as well as adequate cabinet space to store food and ingredients, a dining area, public restrooms, and a storage room for excess kitchen equipment and crockery.
There is a large workshop, store, and coal shed in the garden, as well as a fenced gate through to the private drive and a large double gate into a private parking area, and a garden area useful for private parking and storage for extra vehicles such as a trailer or works vehicles, and a separate private owners garden, with a selection of mature garden plants and trees, and a covered patio with a hot tub for the owners.
Revenues might readily increase by extending the season and adding night time meals if desired, as well as increasing alcohol sales.
The Steading Bed & Breakfast is an excellent location for exploring the local area; from here, you can easily enjoy spectacular landscapes, boat tours, walks, wildlife-watching, castles, gardens, and a variety of outdoor activities.
The Bed & Breakfast is 6 miles from Drumnadrochit and is exceedingly well served by good road, rail, and ferry networks offering connections to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Inverness, as well as their respective airports.
There are excellent schools in the region. Drumnadrochit has infants, middle and high schools, Balnain has middle and high schools, and Cannich has infants and middle schools, all of which are a car ride or school bus ride away from the end of the drive.

Key Features

• Tenure Free Hold
• Popular Restaurant
• Self Catering Apartment
• One Twin En-suite letting room
• Three Double En-suite letting rooms
• Owners Accommodation
• Rural Forest Location
• Easy Access To Transport Buses and Inverness Airport
• Excellent reviews and reputation
• High levels of bookings
• Ample off road parking (private car park)
• Mature Gardens
• Out door pursuits area

Description

Situated in beautiful Glen Urquhart just 6 miles from Drumnadrochit where you will find the Loch Ness exhibition and Urquhart Castle which are main tourist attractions for the Highlands. The property offers 3 double and one twin en-suite letting rooms as well as one bedroom self catering apartment and owners accommodation.

A delightful country residence with easy commuting to the Highland capital of Inverness with its transport hubs including Inverness airport and the start of the world famous North Coast 500.

The business is currently being run as a seasonal life style business offering accommodation with restaurant and public licence. There is plenty of scope to increase trading by opening the restaurant to more customers from the many local accommodation providers. there is also the possibility to increase accommodation with an area that would be suitable for glamping pods subject to planning.

The prospective owners have immediate income, with the potential to increasing future trading and building on a already successful business

The property is in a rural highland setting with exceptional WIFI, clean air, space, safety, off road parking for several cars, beautiful vistas and big skies, outstanding spacious living accommodation, large private garden, work shed wood and coal shed, virtually everything a couple or family could want in a home and Country Inn business,

The village of Drumnadrochit is a picturesque tourist hot spot, home of the loch Ness monster exhibition and Loch Ness cruises, on the world famous Loch Ness with a selection of shops for everyday requirements, primary & secondary schools, heath-centre and petrol station.

The city of Inverness, capital of the Highlands, has a wide array of commercial, educational and retail facility's including a University,  Victorian market, Eden Court Theatre & Cinema,  Inverness Leisure & Aqua dome, Eastgate Shopping Centre, together with a busy mainline railway station, bus station and international and domestic airport, enabling working from home and commuting part of daily life

The countryside around the property is varied with forest trails for both cyclists and walkers, rolling farmland, moorlands and rugged mountains providing a haven for Flora and Fauna changing with every season, an ideal showcase for the professional or novice photographer.

Here you will find a range of leisure and sporting opportunities, Corrimony RSPB Nature Reserve and Glen Affic National Park are just a short drive away, there is a real sense of remoteness set along a Highland Boundary Fault, with crests and ridges forming long chains of peaks leading into some most outstanding wild area's surrounding Loch Mullardoch and Loch Affric along with tourist hot spots of Ben Nevis, Glencoe, Isle of Skye, the Cairngorm National Park, the North-West Highland coast the great glen way, Kintail way, plodder falls and dog falls, and much much more.

Communications links are excellent, the A82 links to Inverness and the A9 give access to the Northern and Southern Highlands, and to the boarders and the rest of the UK.

The Steading is of size suitable for two or three families, if your family needs to spread out, this property offers enough space and privacy, for all the family,

from the main entrance you have a central courtyard without side rooms adjacent to each other, so each family unit can retain their own privacy, this allows all generations to relax and unwind in their own space.

Location

Enjoy the nature that surrounds the property as the woodland and river create echo-systems bursting with life.

There are a number of beautiful walks in this region to suite all abilities, changing with every season.

The Glenurguhart area is extremely popular with locals, great place to walk the dog, with its outstanding natural beauty, abundance of wildlife and opportunities for various outdoor pursuits for the locals and tourist alike

Balnain is approximately 5 miles from Drumnadrochit with the choice of amenities are available, including a medical centre, pharmacy, restaurants, churches, garages and shops, along with the world famous Loch Ness Centre and loch Ness, Local amenities include a primary school, children's play area and community hall. Secondary school pupils attend Glenurguhart High School in Drumnadrochit.

The capital city of Inverness,

offers excellent leisure and shopping facilities, along with local schools, Inverness Leisure Centre and Eden Court Theatre.

More locally convenience stores and the main post office.

Primary schooling is found at Central Primary and secondary schooling is provided by Inverness High School.

a regular bus service goes to and from the City Centre to all destinations, in this region, with air, rail and road links to various destinations throughout the U.K. And beyond.