News: Historic Rotherham building sold
A historic building on Rotherham's heritage High Street has sold at auction.
Cathedral Court, 22-30 (even) High Street in Rotherham town centre extends over three floors.
The building was one of many that were renovated with retail space below and new housing above when the area was a key part of the £5m Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) scheme which was supported by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Rotherham Council.
Remembered by many as the former Muntus department store, the ground floor was also previously used as SNAFU rock bar. It is currently home to Rotherham Visitor Centre and the Maker's Emporium which offers low cost retail space for talented artists, crafters and makers to sell their products and raise awareness of their brands. Space for a stand alone "pop up shop" was also created.
Listed as an investment opportunity with Allsop auctioneers, the property, which includes 18 flats, sold for £660,000.
It is not a listed building but is within the Rotherham town centre conservation area.
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Particulars show that the ground floor and basement are subject to a long lease for a term of 999 years from 17th December 2020 at a peppercorn rent.
In 2012 the freehold of the bar was sold by leading business agents Christie & Co. based on a guide price of £275,000. In a separate deal, the first, second and third floors of the historic building went to auction in the same year with local auctioneers Mark Jenkinson giving it a guide price of £120,000.
Rothbiz reported in 2020 that the Maker's Emporium, initially funded by the High Street Renewal Award and delivered in partnership between Rotherham Council and The Source Skills Academy, was under review.
Other buildings listed as being for sale in Rotherham town centre include the Old Town Hall, which has a guide price of £1.5m, the Bridge Inn pub at £295,000 for the freehold and the vacant 2-4 High Street, which is available for £125,000.
Images: Allsop
Cathedral Court, 22-30 (even) High Street in Rotherham town centre extends over three floors.
The building was one of many that were renovated with retail space below and new housing above when the area was a key part of the £5m Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) scheme which was supported by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Rotherham Council.
Remembered by many as the former Muntus department store, the ground floor was also previously used as SNAFU rock bar. It is currently home to Rotherham Visitor Centre and the Maker's Emporium which offers low cost retail space for talented artists, crafters and makers to sell their products and raise awareness of their brands. Space for a stand alone "pop up shop" was also created.
Listed as an investment opportunity with Allsop auctioneers, the property, which includes 18 flats, sold for £660,000.
It is not a listed building but is within the Rotherham town centre conservation area.
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Particulars show that the ground floor and basement are subject to a long lease for a term of 999 years from 17th December 2020 at a peppercorn rent.
In 2012 the freehold of the bar was sold by leading business agents Christie & Co. based on a guide price of £275,000. In a separate deal, the first, second and third floors of the historic building went to auction in the same year with local auctioneers Mark Jenkinson giving it a guide price of £120,000.
Rothbiz reported in 2020 that the Maker's Emporium, initially funded by the High Street Renewal Award and delivered in partnership between Rotherham Council and The Source Skills Academy, was under review.
Other buildings listed as being for sale in Rotherham town centre include the Old Town Hall, which has a guide price of £1.5m, the Bridge Inn pub at £295,000 for the freehold and the vacant 2-4 High Street, which is available for £125,000.
Images: Allsop
19 comments:
Hope the new owners take much better care of this building than the current ones.
They will be interested in maximising profits so probably not.
Be selling Vapes soon enough
Abduls new mini mart 🤣
It's good to see someone have faith in the town by investing in this property. It's a pity some on this site can't embrace similar optimism rather than just retreating back to the same old tropes.
Well said
My business has been based next door to this building since the days of Snafu. Back then High St was pretty much a self-policing area. We'd regularly see the Primark security guard chase people through the church yard, whilst the Snafu bouncers kept any dodgy dealing in the alley way in check until the early hours.
I hope the new owners do take more responsibility for the building than some of the previous owners. In fairness, the current one has been pretty good at dealing with anti-social behaviour and I hope the new owner continues to address that. It could (and in my view, should) be a nice place to live.
Time will tell!
Optimism!!!Do you ever go down there,might as well change name of town,cos it's most definitely not the town I knew and grew up in....and never will be!
What elements of the town you knew and grew up in are you lamenting?
The two up, two down terraced housing with no bathroom, inside toilet or electricity, the open topped buses and trams, cobbled streets, food shops without refrigerators, chimney sweeps, polio, capital punishment, smog, the Beano, goitres, warm milk, slag heaps.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
The Cinema, Whitehall, Empire, Hippodrome, Odeon, Regent, Marks & Spencer, Woolworths, sarsaparilla shops, Hastings, Brittens, Muntus, John Speed, Masons, Falstaff, Ring o' Bells, Trades & Labour Club, Crown Hotel, College Inn, Cross Keys, Cleaver, Alma Tavern, White Hart, Wheatsheaf, College Inn, WHSmith, Burtons, John Collier, Van Alan's, Wilbeforts, BHS, Denhams, Russums, De Roecks, South Grove, Wellgate School, Electricity Showrooms, Gas Showrooms, Daveys, Danny Williams' Ferrari, Mother's Pride, Veres, the old baths, tracklesses, people dressed smartly, politeness, courtesy, busy streets, snooker halls, record booths, policemen, buses in All Saints Square,
I miss those too, along with kids with purple scalps being treated for impetigo.
Leg irons
Goitres,
I used to love taking my kids and grandkids to Coopers toy shop to pick out their birthday and Christmas presents. It was magical.
Me too, and then I'd get them to wait outside the County Borough with a bag of crisps while I went in for a pint. Magic.
You actually bought them crisps? Spoilt brats!
The County sells crisps? You'll be able to get pork scratchings and pickled eggs next.
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