Clive Emson Land and Property Auctioneers said that its February 2020 auction is set to be the company’s largest since 2018, and its biggest first sale of the year for seven years.
Emson this week published its catalogue for the auction, which comprises 170 lots – a 52% increase on the same auction a year earlier when the firm catalogued just 112 lots.
Highlights of the auction include two historic pubs: the White Hart Hotel in Launceston, Cornwall (pictured), which dates from the 17th century and has a guide price of £225,000 to £275,000; and the Grade II listed former Lord Duncan pub in Chatham, Kent, which was built in the late 18th century and is being offered without reserve in an executor’s sale.
The auction also includes a detached Grade II listed former toilet building incorporating “Doultons decorative cast iron panelling” in Margate, Kent, which is being sold by Thanet District Council as part of its asset disposal programme and is guided at between £10,000 and £15,000.
Another lot is Rakelands, a four-storey, 14-bedroom former care home on a 1.4-acre site near Liss, Hampshire, which also includes an indoor swimming pool and has a guide price of in excess of £1m.
Managing director James Emson said: “With uncertainty and a challenging year now behind us, I anticipate that business is set to grow during 2020.”
The auction will take place between 10 and 14 February at the following locations: the Clive Emson Conference Centre, Detling, Kent; Chelmsford Racecourse, Essex; the Hilton Brighton Metropole, Brighton; the St Mellion International Resort, Saltash, Cornwall; and the Solent Hotel at Whiteley, near Fareham, Hampshire.
