Pictured above: The former Bilston Police Station goes under
the hammer at Bigwood's next auction on July 21
Ever fancied a cell for the night - so you can experience what
it is like to be a prisoner without the years in jail which
normally go with it?
Now you can have a complete police station.
A redundant police station at 15 Mount Pleasant, Bilston, goes
under the hammer at Bigwood's latest auction being held at 11.00am
on Thursday, July 21, at Aston Villa Football Club in
Birmingham.
It is being sold by West Midlands Police and has a guide price
of £150,000.
It is described as "an attractive, spacious, detached three
storey period Listed building". The property is largely store rooms
and offices on three storeys, but includes former cells in the
basement and ground floor.
Bigwood director Ian Tudor said it was suitable for a variety of
alternatives, including community and education use, subject to
planning permission.
He quipped: "It is an attractive building in reasonably good
nick!"
Hawthorn House, former Birmingham City Council offices at 58-60
Hamstead Hall Road, Handsworth Wood, is an imposing 19th Century
Grade II Listed property with a guide price of
£350,000-£400,000. It is in need of upgrading and
modernisation.
Beechenhurst, 10 Serpentine Road, Selly Park, a freehold
detached property, has a guide price of
£400,000-£450,000. It too is 19th Century and is
situated in the Selly Park Conservation Area. Latterly used as
offices but capable of being turned into an imposing residence, it
comes complete with old stables.
Pictured above: Maybrook House, Queensway, Halesowen, is one
of the major commercial lots at Bigwood's next auction on July
21
The auction takes in a host of more recent buildings now made
out of date by advances in rules and regulations.
The 12-bedroom 8 Stuarts Road, Stechford, is a former children's
home built in the 1960s. It has a guide price of
£225,000-£250,000. A cleared site at 31 Bromford Road,
Hodge Hill, guide price £400,000, was once an elderly persons
home but that has been demolished. It is thought suitable for
residential. Lyttleton House, 1 Ormond Road, Rubery, is a
37-bedroom former care home with a guide price of £325,000. A
one-time 12-bed hotel at 127 Portland Road, Edgbaston, has a guide
price of £380,000-£400,000.
And a Grade II Listed period office building at 360 Moseley
Road, Highgate, could also be suitable for conversion. The guide
price is £230,000.
Meanwhile, interesting investment opportunities are Maybrook
House, Queensway, Halesowen, and One Stop, Elmore Lane,
Rugeley.
The 36,863 sq.ft. (3,424.65 sq.m.) five storey Maybrook House
has a current rental income of £172,310 pa and an estimated
full rental value of £221,178. The guide price is
£700,000. The Elmore Lane property, occupied by a One Stop
store, now part of the Tesco empire, has a current gross income of
£28,000 a year. The guide price is £350,000 which, Mr
Tudor, said was "very competitive".
Bigwood is merging with Birmingham chartered surveyors Curry
& Partners on September 1 to create CP Bigwood, the largest
independent agency in the Midlands, with more than £2.5
billion of property under management.
For more information about CP Bigwood please visit their website
here: www.bigwood.uk.com