A Doncaster hair salon – famous for being the corner shop in the popular BBC sitcom Open All Hours – is set to be auctioned this month.
Sheffield auction house Mark Jenkinson, part of the Eddisons property group, is acting on the sale of the building on behalf of joint agent Kembles Estates, and seeking offers over £150,000.
The iconic building, located at 15 Lister Avenue, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, includes a ground floor commercial unit, previously used as a hair salon, along with two flats above, both let under short term tenancies.
The one-bedroom flat is currently rented for £5,200 per annum, and the two-bedroom flat is let for £6,240 annually.
The ground floor commercial unit is currently vacant, but it is estimated that it could rent for around £5,000 per year. The property was used as the exterior for Arkwright’s shop in the long-running series Open All Hours, starring Ronnie Barker and David Jason.
Bidding will commence on 15 October and will be sold by public online auction on 16 October.
James Vandenbrook, associate director at Mark Jenkinson said: “The shop is instantly recognisable from the outside as the backdrop to the drama that played out between Ronnie Barker’s spendthrift grocer Arkwright and his long-suffering errand boy Granville.
“It really is part of television history and, of course, that has created lots of interest in the sale from potential bidders. It will be interesting to see what happens when the auction closes – and what the next episode will hold for this totally unique end-of-terrace Doncaster property.”
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