For Sale by public auction on Monday 25th November 2024 at 6.30pm. The Double Tree by Hilton Hotel, Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5BQ. Live online bidding available.

Description:

Mickle Trafford Methodist Church is a detached property which sits within its own grounds at a slightly higher level than the main road. The site is accessed from Station Lane with a dropped kerb leading onto a driveway which has double metal gates. There is also a separate pedestrian metal gate which opens onto a pathway of shallow concrete steps leading up to the main entrance. The church has been constructed to the right-hand side of the site with the left-hand side being grassed, sloping downwards to Warrington Road with shrubs and several large mature trees. Part of the site boundary around the corner of Warrington Road and Station Lane is a low stone wall, the majority of which is covered in ivy. The driveway and rear of the site are bounded by fencing.

The main church building with single storey lean-to at the right hand side was constructed in 1885, we believe by local Methodist families and then an extension was added in 1964 to provide a church hall and kitchen to the rear.

The church, which is of traditional brick construction with decorative brickwork under a pitched slate tile roof, is approached from the stepped pedestrian pathway leading to the main entrance within a small porch, also of brick construction under a pitched slate roof as is the single storey lean-to on the right hand side although this has a flat felted roof. The church hall and kitchen extension is of brick construction with glass and uPVC infill panels under a low-pitched lean-to corrugated sheeting roof.

Internally the entrance porch has a tiled floor with painted walls and ceiling with a single wooden pedestrian door providing access from outside and a further door leads into the main body of the church. This has a carpeted floor with part painted/part timber boarded walls and a painted ceiling. Six rounded-arch single glazed windows on either side of the church provide lots of natural light with two additional smaller windows facing Station Lane. At the rear of the church and to the right hand side, a door leads into the vestry which has a door through into an inner hallway with lino floor and painted walls and ceiling. This is within the single storey side extension where there is access to two separate toilets each with lino floor, tiled walls and painted ceiling and the rear extension. The inner hallway also has a door out onto the driveway and a door onto an open space between the original church building and the church hall extension.
The rear extension provides a church hall and kitchen, both of which are also accessed from the inner hallway with the kitchen having a lino floor, part tiled/part painted walls and a suspended ceiling and the hall also having a suspended ceiling, painted walls and a timber boarded floor and uPVC double glazed windows. The hall also has double door access into a porch area with further double doors leading to the outside grassed area.

Location:

The subject property is located on the corner of Warrington Road (the A56) and Station Lane within the village of Mickle Trafford. Station Lane is a minor country lane providing a link between the A56 and the nearby village of Guilden Sutton, approximately one mile to the south. The A56 is a major route running north-east to south-west between Warrington and Chester. Running parallel to Warrington Road approximately 450m to the north-west of the property is The Street, which is believed to be part of an old Roman Road between Chester and Warrington.

The village of Mickle Trafford straddles the A56, Warrington Road, approximately four miles north-east of Chester and one mile north-east of Hoole Island where there is access onto the M53 northwards to Birkenhead. From Hoole Island the M53 becomes the North Wales Expressway providing a major route to the Welsh coast at Abergele and then following the coastline to Anglesey.

Less than three miles north of Hoole Island, via the M53, there is access to Junction 15 of the M56, which provides a motorway connection from the Welsh border through Runcorn to Manchester Airport and beyond to the M60 on the outskirts of Stockport.

Mickle Trafford lies in an area designated as green belt and is a mainly residential village with a population of around 1800 (Census 2011). Just south-east of the village, the Mid-Cheshire Railway Line, which runs between Chester and Stockport, joins the main Chester to Manchester Piccadilly Line although there is no longer a station at Mickle Trafford. The village has a small convenience store and Post Office, Village Hall, a park, tennis courts and village school.

Accommodation:

Porch - 55 sq.ft (5.10 sq.m)
Church - 508 sq.ft (47.19 sq.m)
Vestry - 151 sq.ft (14.02 sq.m)
Inner Hallway - 59 sq.ft (5.48 sq.m)
Toilet - 37 sq.ft (3.43 sq.m)
Toilet - 38 sq.ft (3.53 sq.m)
Store - 47 sq.ft (4.36 sq.m)
Church Hall - 632 sq.ft (58.71 sq.m)
Kitchen - 99 sq.ft (9.19 sq.m)
Porch - 43 sq.ft (3.99 sq.m)

TOTAL FLOOR AREA - 1,669 sq.ft (155.00 sq.m)

We have used an internet mapping service to measure the site and this amounts to 0.27 acres (1,107.34 sq.m.).

Services:

We understand that the building has all mains services. The church has two central heating boilers, one is located in the vestry and provides heating for the church and the other is in the kitchen providing heating for the rear extension. None of the services have been individually inspected or tested and therefore, advice from an appropriately qualified engineer should be sought to confirm that such services are in satisfactory condition. Unless otherwise stated, we have assumed that all services are in working order and free from defect.

Legal Pack:

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Viewing:

Strictly by appointment via bjb commercial, Suite 1, Albion House, No.2 Etruria Office Village, Forge Lane, Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5RQ
Telephone 01782 212201. Opening hours are 9.00-5.30pm, Monday to Friday.

Internet, Telephone & Proxy Bidding:

Interested in this lot but can't attend the auction? You can bid by internet, telephone or by proxy by pre-registering with our auction department on 0800 090 2200 or email auction@bjbmail.com. Further details are available in the catalogue.

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