One of Yorkshire’s oldest Dales hotels goes up for sale
The Rose & Crown Hotel in the Wensleydale village of Bainbridge is on the market.
Dating back to 1445, the historic, grade II listed restaurant and inn is thought to be one of the oldest pubs in Yorkshire.
It has been put on the market for a guide price of £550,000 with commercial property estate agent Ernest Wilson.
As well as the Rose & Crown’s 11-bedroom hotel, restaurant and three separate bars, the former coaching inn comes with the opportunity to acquire an additional seven-acre plot of paddock land that runs down to the banks of the River Ure.
Mark Czajka, a director at Ernest Wilson, said: “The Rose & Crown is a really cracking business that’s being run at quite a low level currently.
“The owner, who had an exciting career as an RAF pilot and then as an airline captain before becoming a publican and hotelier, is gearing up to take his well-earned retirement after 25 years running the business.”
Located on the village green in Bainbridge, the hotel’s restaurant seats 85 people and the bedrooms accommodate 26 guests.
Czajka added: “The hotel has enormous potential to be escalated to become a much more dynamic and profitable business and there is great scope in this beautiful area of the Yorkshire Dales, which is a real honeypot for visitors.”
