66 High Street

Oatlands TAS 7120

Here is an exclusive opportunity to purchase a unique, completely furnished bed and breakfast business. This charming Circa 1880 property has a magnificent street presence with its dormer windows, wrought iron-decorated verandah and period styling of the shop front. It includes seven guest bedrooms plus a separate personal living area with a kitchenette and ensuite, which is an ideal Managers' quarters. Linked to this is a 4.4 x 6 metre shop with display cabinets etc., stocked currently with small saleable items which will be included in the sale, plus a 10sqm storage room.Upon entering you will find a short hall flanked by two spacious bedrooms. This hall leads into a grand living area with its warm ambience and attractive fireplace. To your left is the formal dining room and ahead the dayroom with its vast sandstone fireplace where there is installed a huge Canadian step wood-heater. This room is open to the kitchen and off it is a bathroom with claw-foot bath, and the laundry with its commercial washing machine and dryer. Behind a double door is a celery top timber stair which leads to the five upper bedrooms - two with ensuites - and another bathroom. One bedroom on the sunny northern side has a Juliet balcony in the shade of a mature elm tree and a beautiful view along the main street toward the old grain mill. Across the road the double storey sandstone council chambers is typical of many historic buildings in this lovely old town (one of this year's finalists in the Tidy Towns Awards) which was a convenient stop for the stage coaches of old and is today the halfway point for travellers between Hobart and Launceston. This central location makes it ideal for a hospitality establishment by evening and retail business by day. The wiring and plumbing is sound and the building itself needs very little attention, although as is to be expected with a Registered building of this age there are several items which eventually will need some work, but nothing which can't be done by an enthusiastic handy person.All this is sited on 1240sqms of land with a mature garden including numerous fruit trees and shaded in summer by huge Elms. On the rear boundary is a double garage and carport, reached by a private lane. This desirable property is offered on a walk-in walk-out basis where little more than personal items will be removed. Please feel free to call for more details or an inspection.