Plough Tavern (ref 1726)

• Price: 20000
• Tenure: Leasehold
• Business type: Public house

The Plough Tavern occupies a prominent and highly visible trading location on Court Street in the heart of the popular East Lothian town of Haddington. Haddington is a historic market town which lies just off the main A1 route less than 20 miles east of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh.

East Lothian is up there with the most desirable locations to live in Scotland and is a mecca for golfers with the courses at Gullane, Muirfield, Archerfield, North Berwick and Dunbar all reachable within a 20-minute drive. Other notable attractions in the area include Lennoxlove House and the Museum of Flight.

Haddington continues to grow in population with several new housing developments recently completely and many still in progress.

Next door to the business is the Corn Exchange building which is the Haddington home of the Brunton Theatre.  The theatre is busy all year round with a variety of shows and attractions. 

The public house accommodation is all on ground floor. The letting accommodation is located on the first and second floors and the current breakdown of rooms offers: 6 letting bedrooms (4 ensuite, 2 non ensuite that share a private bathroom. The rooms need upgrading and refurbishment. It is strongly envisaged that new owners will wish to invest in the letting bedrooms and create tourism driven letting rooms that will be particularly attractive to a wide variety of tourist and business custom.  

The pub has a fantastic, enclosed beer garden to the side and rear. The premises also has permission for outdoor seating to the front of the property. The business also has private car park at the rear (7 bays). 

A superb opportunity now exists for new enthusiastic owners to put their own stamp on this much loved and popular local business. The business still trades from a durable base offering a popular public bar and a menu crammed with pub favourites. It is strongly felt that new owners will be able to build on this and enhance the business further. 

The Plough Tavern is poised ready for development for new owners to realise the true potential of the business. Enormous potential exists with much needed development of the letting bedrooms. A targeted ingoing to boost the rooms will immediately provide strong occupancy as well as repeat business which will filter to both the wet and food sides of the business. 

The Plough Tavern has been run by our client for the last 22 years.   Our client is now at the stage where they would like to consider their retirement.