New owners wanted for Whitakers and the Spite Inn
8:30am Sunday 28th November 2010
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Two Wharfedale pubs are up for sale, it has been revealed.
Whitakers, in Kirkgate, Otley, and the Spite Inn, in nearby Newall with Clifton, are both on the market after enjoying varying success in recent times.
The leasehold of Whitakers, run by Wayne and Mel Green, is for sale after owners Chennell and Armstrong decided to get rid of four pubs they own in West Yorkshire.
The pub, which has a walled beer garden, is something of a cask ale specialist.
Other pubs offered for sale by Chennell and Armstrong include The Woodman Inn, in Thunderbridge, near Huddersfield, the Black Bull in Wetherby and Whitelocks, in Leeds, which is the city’s oldest
pub and the first property in Leeds to have electricity.
The pub is also a Grade II listed building.
A spokesman for Chennell and Armstrong said the pubs were going on the market as a result of the retirement of commercial director David Statner, with the company deciding to reduce their
day-to-day operations. But he said he hoped Whitakers would continue to flourish under new ownership.
“It’s doing quite well,” the spokesman said.
“I think Otley is like a number of towns in having a really tough time. Whitakers has settled down and become a part of the community despite some fairly tough economic conditions.”
The four pubs, which are being sold by Sheffield-based Quest Property, come as a package or individually.
Meanwhile, the Spite Inn is on the market for about £275,000 nearly three months after stopping trading, and only about a year after re-opening.
An advert on the Westlake and Co Chartered Surveyors website describes the pub as a “very appealing and potentially lucrative business capable of expansion” with a “large car park and garden
areas”.
Leeds North West MP Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland only re-opened the pub at the end of August 2009.
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