12 Museum Street

Ipswich, IP1 1HT

Buy £1,300,000

Freehold For Sale

Town Centre Office Property 13,311 sq m (1,237 sq m)

Located in central business district

Part let to Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers  Ltd.

Secure on-site car parking

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Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk and major commercial centre of East Anglia.  The A12 and A14 trunk routes provide excellent road communications with London, Cambridge, the Midlands and the national motorway network.  The M25 and Stansted Airport are both within an hours drive and the approximate train journey time from Ipswich to London Liverpool Street is  1 hour and 10 minutes.

The property is located in the central business district, on the west side of Museum Street, the town’s prime shopping area being immediately to the north.

Description

The property comprises a purpose built office building arranged upon ground and two upper floors providing open plan accommodation.  Good quality glazed and studwork partitions have been installed to create individual offices, meeting rooms and kitchen facilities.  The rear area of the ground floor, previously used as a computer room facility, has scope for conversion to provide further offices.

A side entrance leads on to a small landscaped courtyard with gated access to the secure covered car park providing 12 spaces and approached via a service road off Blackhorse Lane.

The specification of the premises includes:-

  • Raised access floors

  • Air conditioning

  • Suspended ceilings with recessed lighting

  • Double glazing

  • Male/female and disabled WC’s

  • Kitchen and shower facilities

  • 8 person lift

The original gas fired central heating system has been decommissioned.

Services

The property is connected to mains electricity, water and drainage.  As referred to above the previous gas fired central heating system has been decommissioned.

We have not tested any of the services and all interested parties should rely upon their own enquiries with the relevant utility companies in connection with the availability and capacity of all of those serving the  property including IT and telecommunication links.

Condition

The front section of the ground floor has been refurbished and the rear section of the ground floor requires full refurbishment or conversion to offices, depending upon future requirements.  The entire first floor was refurbished upon the tenant originally taking possession in December 2018.

The front suite of the second floor would benefit from refurbishment prior to occupation although the rear suite was fully refurbished upon the premises being let to Sedgewick International UK in 2018, the tenant having vacated following the service of a break notice in October 2023.

Accommodation

The premises provide the following approximate net internal floor areas:

Ground floor

Front left suite

Vacant

720 sq ft

66.89 sq m

Front right suite

AJG*

619 sq ft

57.51 sq m

Rear suite

Vacant (former computer room)

861 sq ft

79.99 sq m

First floor

Front suite

AJG*.

1,822 sq ft

169.27 sq m

Rear suite

AJG*

3,767 sq ft

349.96 sq m

Second floor

Front suite

Vacant

1,758 sq ft

163.32 sq m

Rear suite

Vacant

3,764 sq ft

349.68 sq m

Total net internal floor area:

13,311 sq ft

1,236.62 sq m

* Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd.

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Terms

Offers are invited in the region of £1,300,000 for the freehold interest.

The property is VAT elected and VAT will be chargeable upon the sale price.

Tenancy Details

The ground floor, front right suite together with the two first floor suites are let to Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Limited upon a short term renewal lease expiring on 1st October 2024. The rent is £70,000 per annum, equating to £11.28 per sq.ft and the lease is contracted out of the security of tenure provisions of the 1954 Landlord & Tenant Act.

Energy Performance Certificate

The property’s current energy rating is D.

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12 Museum Street

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