* In a prime location and ideally suited for use as commercial, office or retail premises * Floor area of 16’ x 18’6” with seperate entrance and road-facing window * One unit available to rent on a yearly basis - Rental price Ł4,000 per annum, payable quarterly
GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Old Station is situated centrally within The Avenue, Sark’s shopping area, opposite the main island grocery shop, The Island Stores, and adjacent to a new development of 4 small residential units. A long-established hairdressing salon occupies the eastern-end of the building and will share the heating and WC’s. Three high level windows give ample room for external displays of goods for sale and allow a large amount of space for shelving, picture display and racked goods on the internal walls. Shop signs and display boards would be easily visibly on the external walls. The Old Station could also be used as office and/or storage space.
SARK Sark is located about nine miles east of Guernsey and twenty three miles north of Jersey with access only permissible by boat with regular ferries to Guernsey and Jersey where there are international airports. Flight time to Gatwick is about thirty minutes by jet.
Sark is spectacular in both its scenery and its simplicity; its tranquil beauty is unmarred by cars or tarmac roads and yet enhanced by excellent modern facilities and telecommunications for residents and visitors alike. The only independent feudal state remaining in Europe, Sark is self-governing through ‘Chief Pleas’ and is presided over by the Seigneur. Transport on Sark is restricted to the horse and carriage, the bicycle and ‘shanks pony’. Tractors are, however, allowed by licence for general farm work, carting of goods from the harbour, and personal transport by arrangement. Everyday shopping facilities are available on Sark together with a selection of excellent hotels, restaurants, and public houses.
TAXATION Sark does not levy any income tax, property gains tax, capital gains tax, tax, inheritance tax or value-added-tax on its residents. Other local taxes are minimal.
NOTES FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN A COMMERCIAL OUTLET:
1. Sark attracts over 50,000 visitors to the island during the spring and summer months. 2. The island has 5 hotels (total capacity 193 residents plus staff), 10 Guest Houses (total capacity 84 residents), 2 licensed campsites (total capacity 100 campers) and 16 self-catering cottages (total capacity 149 residents) that are all thriving during the spring and summer months. 3. Sark has approximately 600 permanent residents, the majority of whom have a preference for shopping locally if at all possible. 4. Usually one Hotel, a number of Guest Houses and the majority of the shops will stay open during the quieter winter months to cater for the smaller number of winter visitors. 5. The Avenue presently has shops offering everyday groceries, newspapers and magazines, a post office and hardware store, jewellery, hand-blown glass, pottery and local paintings, hairdressing, 3 cafes and a bicycle hire shop. 6. As the islands economy relies greatly on tourism it is encouraged as much as possible. 7. This year sees the return of a regular boat from Jersey and France, to bring additional visitors to the island. The Old Station, The Avenue, Sark (cont.)
SERVICES Mains electricity, oil-fired central heating, shared borehole water, shared septic tank drainage.
VIEWING Strictly by appointment only through Sark Estate Agents as the proprietors Sole Agent.
