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Jericho, Oxford, Ox1 2Hu CO-OP & OXFORD WINE CAFÉ 123-127 WALTON ST. & 32 LITTLE CLARENDON ST. JERICHO, OXFORD, OX1 2HU PRIME RETAIL & LEISURE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY CO-OP & OXFORD WINE CAFÉ PRIME RETAIL & LEISURE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY INVESTMENT SUMMARY RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY QUARTER n Oxford is one of the of the UK’s top OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS KEBEL COLLEGE retailing and academic cities BLAVATNIK SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT WOODSTOCK ROAD n Prominent convenience store and ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM wine bar located in the very affluent SUBJECT PROPERTY Jericho area of Oxford n Situated adjacent to the Radcliffe WORCESTER COLLEGE CORNMARKET STREET Observatory Quarter, one of the city's A505 Stevenage Luton Stansted A41 Luton A120 major recent redevelopments, and in A5 A10 A44 A602 GEORGE STREET Oxford M1 A1(M) A34 Aylesbury A130 close proximity to Oxford University Press Welwyn Garden M11 WALTON STREET A40 City A418 A414 OXFORD A41 Hemel Harlow A12 and Sommerville, Worcester and St Albans A4142 Thame Hempstead M10 Chelmsford A420 J21 A414 Exeter Colleges A404 Potters Bar Epping M40 A4010 J20 J23 J19 J25 M25 J27 Abingdon A130 NUFFIELD COLLEGE Watford Enfield n Attractive building with prominent road Dorchester High Wycombe A355 A413 Brentwood Billericay frontages totalling 6,902 sq ft let to Didcot Wallingford M25 J28 Wantage Harefield Harrow Brent Harwell A12 A127 Cross J29 Basildon A404 J16 Romford Co-operative and Oxford Wine Café Wembley OXFORD CASTLE Henley-on-Thames Maidenhead Uxbridge Canvey Slough A13 Island LONDONLondon A34 n SAïD BUSINESS SCHOOL J15 City AWULT of 17.5 years Windsor M25 Reading Clapham M4 Heathrow Richmond Dartford Bradfield Egham Ashford Gravesend Bracknall A20 J2 n 61% of in the income secured to Ascot Bromley Newbury J12 A322 J3 Gillingham Walton-on-Thames Croydon Rochester Co-operative group for another 16.4 years Bagshot M2 A33 Sandhurst Epsom J10 Woking Biggin Hill n The Co-operative Group lease benefits A339 A22 OXFORD TRAIN STATION J9 J5 M26 M20 Basingstoke M3 Sevenoaks Fleet A331 M25 Maidstone A3 J7 J8 J6 Oxted from rent reviews to the higher of Open Aldershot Guildford Reigate A26 Dorking Redhill Famham A21 Market Rent or RPI A24 Tonbridge A303 M23 Horley Royal Alton Gatwick Tunbridge n Cranleigh A264 Passing Rent is £206,939 pa Wells A229 FRIDESWIDE SQUARE A31 Crawley Three Bridges n A264 East Grinstead Offers are sought in excess of Horsham Winchester £3,700,000 (Three Million Seven A23 Haywards Hundred Thousand Pounds) subject Heath to contract and exclusive of VAT. This reflects a net initial yield of 5.25% after allowing for purchaser's costs of 6.52% PRIME RETAIL & LEISURE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY CO-OP & OXFORD WINE CAFÉ LOCATION The historic city of Oxford is known as the City of dreaming spires, it is an affluent city in the South East region of England, home to the world-renowned University of Oxford. The city is one of the fastest growing and ethnically diverse in the UK. Oxford is strategically positioned to the west of the M40 and is located approximately 60 miles (96 km) north west of Central London, 26 miles (41 km) north of Reading, 65 miles (104 km) south east of Birmingham and 80 miles (128 km) south west of Cambridge. Oxford benefits from excellent communication links. The A34 and A40 dual carriageways provide access to Junctions 8 and 9 of the M40 Motorway respectively. The city is well connected by railway, with regular direct services to London Paddington A505 Stevenage OXFORD in a journey time of 56 minutes, and direct to Birmingham New Street in a journey time Luton Stansted A41 Luton A120 UNIVERSITY A5 A10 PARKS of 65 minutes. P A44 a A602 rk s Oxford A1(M) R M1 o a d Aylesbury A130 A34 RADCLIFFE Oxford is well served by bus links to and from Central London, with the X90 Oxford-London Welwyn Garden M11 OBSERVATORY A40 City A418 A414 QUARTER service and the Oxford Tube, with a journey time of approximately 100 minutes. Harlow P OXFORD A41 Hemel A12 a OXFORD r ks Hempstead St Albans Roa Thame t e d A4142 e r Chelmsford W A4144 t St t Bl M10 a ack Street lt Har o Heathrow International Airport is conveniently located approximately 45 miles (72 km) to the h Great Clarendon Street 4 n al ictor lRo V S et J21 OXFORD a A d A414 t lb r A420 e e 414 Epping rt Potters Bar Street e A404 UNIVERSITY St t A n J20 re A4010 M40 diga tle Clarendon Stre r et Lit J23 Ca PRESS south east of Oxford; this is the UK’s busiest airport, easily accessed via road, rail and bus. J19 J25 J27 M25 C ton S an g q lin u el Abingdon a W a oad l Street r e A130 arks R t St W t h P en c out S Watford s a e G r Enfield l n Stree C t on i n l o Al e lto s Dorchester High b a ngt lli e W La e rt W S ne rteet Billericay A355 Brentwood Wycombe A413 Wa St l t J NelsonJ28 S on S tree Didcot t nd Road W o Richmo Wallingford M25 hn a SITUATION S l to tr tre n L t Harefield Harrow e ee Wantage e tr Brent e t y S a se Pa Harwell t Pu n A127 A12 e UNIVERSITY J29 rk Basildon s Cross Road Romford A404 J16 R P OF OXFORD ew B lace u ea s 44 Wembley Worcester P le e y u y 1 Ro mo L 4 The subject property is situated in a prominent position on the eastern edge of the Jericho a a W Henley-on-Thames Uxbridge d n ne A t Buil Maidenhead Canveya l t o din Slough A13 n g IslandS s London t district of Central Oxford. r e LONDON ASHMOLEAN A34 J15 e City t Windsor M25 MUSEUM Reading Heathrow Clapham WORCESTER 4 M4 Richmond Dartford A414 TRINITY Jericho is a thriving and bustling suburb in Oxford and a hub for students making it one of R Bradfield ew le Castle Mill Stream COLLEGE y COLLEGE Ro Gravesend Egham Ashford ad Bracknall A20 J2 the city's most sought-after areas. Ascot 4 Bromley 4 J12 1 Newbury J3 Gillingham A4 A322 Croydon Rochester Walton-on-Thames Bagshot Re The property is conveniently situated on the corner of Walton Street and Little Clarendon Oxford wl e et y Ro tre M2 ip S Sh A33 t Sandhurst a Stree Epsom d eorge George Street G t ree Street. Little Clarendon Street is a retail street that links Walton Street to St Giles which s St hael J10 144 Mic Woking Biggin Hill A4 St A339 A22 J9 J5 M26 M20 provides access to the city centre approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south. M3 Sevenoaks Basingstoke Fleet A331 M25 Maidstone A3 J7 J8 J6 Oxted Aldershot The subject property lies adjacent to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter which is one of the Guildford Reigate A26 Dorking Redhill Famham A21 most significant developments that has been undertaken by the University of Oxford. The A24 Tonbridge A303 M23 Horley Royal designated area is a 10 acre site that encompasses the land immediately to the north of Alton Gatwick Tunbridge Cranleigh A264 Wells A229 the subject property and work began on the development in October 2008. A31 Crawley Three Bridges A264 East Grinstead The first buildings to be completed in the designated area were new student accommodation Horsham Winchester blocks and since then a new health centre, maths institute, humanities division and school A23 Haywards of government have been built and the area has transformed significantly, resembling a Heath small campus. Nearby occupiers include; Loch Fyne restaurant, Brasserie Blanc, The Phoenix Picturehouse, Branca and The Oxford University Press. Oxford railway station is located approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south west. CO-OP & OXFORD WINE CAFÉ PRIME RETAIL & LEISURE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS DESCRIPTION Oxford is a thriving city that benefits from tourism, a large student The property comprises three units, a convenience store, population and being commutable distance from London. a wine café and student accommodation above, There are 43,500 full time students and the city attracts an which has been sold off. estimated 7 million visitors every year, generating approximately The cooperative unit has frontage on to Walton Street and £780 million of spend. The town has an estimated shopping is arranged to provide a ground floor food store with storage population of 258,000 and a total population within the Oxford in the basement. primary catchment area of 553,000. The wine café occupies a prominent position with attractive Oxford has one of the most affluent catchment populations frontages to both Walton Street and Little Clarendon Street and is in the UK, ranked 26th of the PROMIS centres. The 2011 census arranged to provide a bar and seating area at ground floor. The showed that the Oxford area contained a significantly above unit also benefits from a kitchen, wine cellar, customer toilets and average proportion of adults of working age categorised storage at basement level. within the most affluent AB social group. The student accommodation is managed by Lincoln College. 1 1 9 a 60.7m 11 9 el E p D ha e) & C ivat W (pr a rd B PH 4 d y 6 5 7 ET War Memorial 9 RE ST N ry O F ND ery th rg e ARE a ab d 12 M iz el CL T El ffi E C u e TL B N us IT Ho L 63.3m 61.1m 1 2 t rs Fi 5 20 3 1 Hall of U TCB n O iv 8 e 2 7 ff r 9 2 3 i s 2 9 c e i ty 30 s 31 32a Bank 2 1 3 2 7 62.9m 9 2 1 54 6 ta S W ub S E 9 El L 4 L IN 61.1m G 2 8 2 8 2 3 T O N 3 1 3 S 2 Q 1 U A R 1 3 E 2 7 2 5 2 62.9m 8 4 5 7 1 3 W A 2 L 2 T 0m 10m 20m 30m O N 45 L C LB A R Rewley N © CrownE Copyright, ES 100004106.
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