Property round-up: Tenant sought for oldest pub in Wales; £18m care scheme completes; and more

A PUB in the Dee Valley which is reputedly the oldest in Wales has been placed on the market.

Ty Mawr, a Grade II*-listed building in the village of Gwyddelwern, near Corwen, is being offered for letting by Colliers International.

The pub dates back to 1081AD and was originally a priest house where pilgrims and other travellers were offered refuge and lodging.

Over the centuries, it was extended and its main structure dates from between 1386 and 1572 AD. After being modernised in 1870, Ty Mawr resembled a large Victorian inn with pebbledash and mortar concealing its original and historic features.

Current owner Gavin Morgan acquired the property in 1999 when it was known as the Rose & Crown and undertook extensive renovation to return it to its former glory.

During renovation, he discovered a ‘jetton’ or gaming token dating from 1521 tucked into a crack in the beam above the main fireplace.

The ‘jetton’ is identical to six found on Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose when she was raised from the seabed off Portsmouth.

Mr Morgan is looking to let the pub to concentrate on other business ventures.

Colin Siebert, a director of Colliers International’s licensing team in Manchester, said: “We feel truly privileged to be instructed to find a suitable tenant for this magnificent building.  

“Whilst the ground floor bar/dining area and first floor restaurant displays all its medieval grandeur and character to provide a memorable dining and drinking experience it has a modern catering kitchen and quality facilities, ideal for licensed use.

“Ty Mawr presents an excellent opportunity for a good food operator to develop a quality restaurant/pub which, given the building’s history and character, is likely to attract custom from far and wide”.

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ARENA Housing Association has just taken possession of its £18m Brookside care apartment scheme in Ormskirk.

The development contains 111 one- and two-bed extra care apartments with communal and support facilities.

The scheme, which was designed by Manchester-based Pozzoni Architects, includes a fitness suite, beauty salon, day care centre, library/IT room, multi-purpose/cinema room, treatment rooms, music room and offices for NHS Central Lancashire.

Pozzoni specialises in designing homes for older people with all levels of physical ability from the fully able to the very frail. Its designs are also sympathetic to the needs of older people with dementia.

The landscaping and gardens are also designed along dementia principles and reinforce the essential link between building and landscape and the therapeutic effects of well-considered dementia design.

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CHRISTIE + Co’s Manchester office has been appointed to sell a Londis store on Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester.

The store is built within a former showroom and has drinks chillers, freezers, a pay zone and several other features. It is also based on one of the main arterial routes into the city centre and is within walking distance of the Greenquarter residential scheme and the MEN arena.

The shop is being offered on a 15-year lease, with an annual rent of £20,000.

Martin Thompson of Christie + Co’s Manchester office, said: “This Londis store is a light, modern and airy shop and, even thought it only opened 12 months ago, it is already producing sales of £15,000 per week and shows real potential as a ‘ready to go’ store.”