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Arkwright Road, Willowbrook Industrial Estate, Corby, Northants NN17 5AE Unit A, Arkwright Road, Willowbrook Industrial Estate, Corby, Northants NN17 5AE CORBY Arkwright Road Available To Let HQ detached industrial/warehouse unit 25,178 sq ft (2,340 sq m) Logistics real estate urbanised mileway.com Arkwright Siteplan Road ARKWRIGHT ROAD Comprehensively refurbished55 car parking spacesLarge loading yard STEEL ROAD A6116 Available To Let HQ detached industrial/warehouse unit 25,178 sq ft Accommodation Key Features • Comprehensively Refurbished Unit sq m sq ft • The property is well served by multiple WC facilities on The subject property comprises a prestigious metres, two level access loading doors, and Three phase LED lighting Located in Warehouse 1,533 sq m 16,498 sq ft the ground floor and male and female WC facilities and a Detached HQ industrial/warehouse building comprehensive two storey office and ancillary electricity Corby kitchenette on the first floor Ground Floor Offices 423 sq m 4,553 sq ft with a 34.5% office content located in a accommodation that is ideally suited for a • 55 car parking spaces prominent position within the Willowbrook head office operation. The property is also First Floor Offices 383 sq m 4,127 sq ft • Large loading yard Industrial Estate in Corby. The property has served by a large yard area and approx 55 car Two level 6m minimum Multiple WC Total 2,340 sq m 25,178 sq ft been comprehensively refurbished and parking spaces. access eaves height facilities & • 6m minimum eaves height provides a clear-span warehouse production loading doors kitchenette area with a minimum eaves height of six A50 Thurmaston Oakham Northfields Deeping Gate A1175 Arkwright Sat Nav: NN17 5AE Stamford A16 Leicester Keon Road Unit A, Arkwright Road, Willowbrook Industrial Estate, Corby, Northants NN17 5AE Braunstone A1 Thorney Town A47 Oadby A47 Wigston Uppingham Peterborough Kilby Bridge A6003 A43 Alwalton Whilesey EPC Terms Location A6 Blaston A1139 M1 Yaxley The property has an EPC The property is available by way of a The A14 is located approximately Corby A605 A427 A5 Market Oundle Rating of 63 In Band C. new Full Repairing and Insuring lease on 8 miles to the south at Kettering Harborough A1(M) Luerworth Great Oakley Brigstock Ramsey terms to be negotiated. The guide rent (junctions 7, 8, 9 & 10) and provides Desborough is £145,000 per annum exclusive of all access to the west to junction 19 of the Sawtry M6 Rothwell outgoings and VAT. M1 at the interchange with the M6 and A14 Keering Thrapston Warboys to the east, to the A1, M11, Cambridge A14 Rugby Burton VAT Legal Costs and onto the east coast ports. Latimer Ringstead Dunchurch Crick A14 Alconbury A508 Raunds M45 A43 A509 Huntingdon St Ives Irthlingborough VAT will be payable where All parties will be responsible for their own The £34 million Corby Link Road was Kilsby Godmanchester Long Buckby Wellingborough applicable. legal costs incurred in the transaction. completed in 2014. A new train A45 Kimbolton A14 Rushden station opened in April 2009 with a Moulton Park A1 journey to London (St Pancras) of Daventry Queens Park M1 Northampton Viewing / Further Information approximately 70 minutes. St Neots A428 A428 Cambourne By Road A14 approx 9.9 miles (Junctions 7, 8, 9 & 10). A6003 Corby to London is 91 miles with journeys A6116 taking approximately 1h 48 via the A14 and M1. Rockingham Road Phoenix Parkway Trinity Road Oliver Thompson Gilbert Harvey By Rail [email protected] GHarvey@ Corby Railway Station. T +44 (0)1604 604 020 budworthhardcastle.com A6116 Located nearby offering a direct link to Weldon North M +44 (0)7837 191 054 T +44 (0)1536 483 400 Industrial St Pancras International with a journey time M +44 (0)7730 416 962 Estate Jack Brown of 70 minutes with approx. 19 trains per day. Willowbrook [email protected] East Industrial Approx 1.6 miles from Arkwright Road Estate A43 T +44 (0)1604 492 020 Weldon M +44 (0)7969 291 660 A6086 By Bus Corby Regular buses run throughout Corby to the Industrial Estate. Approx every 30 mins. A427 Property owned by A43 Corby The Agents for themselves and for the vendors or lessors of the property whose agents they give notice that, (i) these particulars are given without responsibility of The Agents or the vendors or lessors as a general A427 outline only, for the guidance of prospective purchasers or tenants, and do not constitute the whole or any part of an offer or contract; (ii) The Agents cannot guarantee the accuracy of any description, dimension, references to condition, necessary permissions for use and occupation and other details contained therein and any prospective purchasers or tenants should not rely on them as statements or representations or fact but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the accuracy of each of them; (iii) no employee of The Agents has any authority to make or give any representation or enter into any contract whatsoever in relation to the property; (iv) VAT may be payable on the purchase price and / or rent, all figures are exclusive of VAT, intending purchasers or lessees must satisfy themselves as to the applicable VAT position, if necessary by taking appropriate professional advice; (v) The Agents will not be liable, in negligence or otherwise for any loss arising from the use of these particulars. June 2021. mileway.com.
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