SP7 16 High Street, Shaftesbury

The property is a mid-terraced, three storey mixed use building of both traditional brick

and sandstone blockwork construction beneath a slate covered pitched roof. The windows

are timber framed single glazed sash units. On the ground floor there are two retail units,

occupied by a ladies fashion retailer and a baker respectively, where the latter also occupies

part of the first floor.

The retail unit known as 16A, currently occupied by Mistral Retail Limited, trading as

'Mistral' is an open plan ground floor retail unit with ancillary storage to the rear. Unit 16B,

a small ground floor retail unit of irregular shape with first floor ancillary space is currently

occupied by Reeve the Baker Ltd. The ground floor is arranged as a bakers with a sales

counter running down the right hand side of the sales area. To the rear of the ground floor

there is a small food preparation area and access to the rear yard area. The first floor of

16B is significantly larger than the ground floor as it extends over the neighbouring unit

and provides a food preparation area, storage space and staff toilet facilities.

The remaining elements of the first and second floors comprise two residential flats that

are sold off on long leases. Access to the residential flats is from the rear of the property

via a passage and courtyard area accessed to the right of the Cancer Research unit at

22-24 High Street.

Shaftesbury is an affluent, quintessentially British town located in Dorset.

Situated on the A350 trunk road approximately 20 miles west of Salisbury,

approximately 24 miles north west of Bournemouth and approximately 25

miles south east of Bath on the border of Wiltshire.

The A350 provides access to Bournemouth and Poole to the south

and to Bath via the A36 to the north. The A350 also provides access

to the A303 to the north of Shaftesbury which provides access to the

M3 motorway in the east and Exeter via Honiton to the West.

The nearest railway station is located in Gillingham, approximately 5

miles north east of Shaftesbury and provides regular rail services to

Salisbury in approximately 25 minutes and Sherborne in approximately

15 minutes.