Established 4 star market town hotel, with connections to "Robert Burns" in Dumfries & Galloway.

Selkirk Arms Hotel

High Street

Kirkcudbright

Dumfries & Galloway

DG6 4JG

·         Excellent Quality 4 Star 17-Bedroom Townhouse Hotel

·         In “heart” of historic coastal Galloway town – the “Artists’ Town”

·         Fantastic range of bars, restaurants & meeting rooms

·         Excellent mix of local, visitor and repeat custom

·         Turnover over £1.3m (net) March 2025

·         Presented very well throughout with excellent reputation

·         Superb business opportunity within thriving locale

·         Producing strong profits

FREEHOLD: Offer Over £1,200,000

Historic Note 

Robert Burns is reputed to have written the “Selkirk Grace” when staying at the Selkirk Arms in 1794: 

“Some hae meat an’ canna eat An some wad eat that want it But we hae meat an we can eat An “sae the Lord be thankit”.”

The Selkirk Arms Hotel is a successful and profitable business, which has benefitted from a regular programme of refurbishment and upgrading to keep the hotel at its best possible position. The hotel is just off the town centre, and enjoys the additional amenity of having neat peaceful gardens, with outdoor seating, and a useful private car park. All in all, this combination of compact facilities and “critical mass” combine to create a highly profitable, rewarding and successful business.

The present owners acquired the hotel in 2007 and spent many years developing a highly reputable and profitable business. The hotel is now not only one of the finest hotels in the local area but Scotland’s South-West. Business trade is generated from repeat custom together with general tourism and high levels of local support. The sale of the Selkirk Arms Hotel offers a fantastic opportunity to acquire a well-established business with excellent cash flow and profitability.

Location

Kirkcudbright, in the beautiful Dumfries & Galloway region, has easy access to the beaches of the Solway Coast, to the Galloway Hills, Mountain Biking venues, a range of challenging golf courses and the UK’s first ‘Dark Sky Park’ at Galloway Forest. Supporting this are two recent editions to Kirkcudbright and Galloway, the Dark Space Planetarium and the new Dark Art Distillery, both in the town centre, providing additional visitor attractions.

The hotel is situated close to the centre of the attractive and well-known coastal town of Kirkcudbright, which combines successfully the more modern attractions of a picturesque resort, with a regular town centre, which includes a variety of businesses and activities and a range of local small industry and services. Kirkcudbright has long been a centre for visual artists and is known as “the Artists’ Town” (the importance of which was recognised with the opening, by the Princess Royal in 2018, of Kirkcudbright Galleries – a regional gallery of national significance celebration and promoting the unique art heritage of Kirkcudbright). The town had a long association with the Glasgow art movement, including the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists, Peploe and Cadwell, who based themselves in the area over a 30-year period from 1880 to 1910, establishing the Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony. Also, among those who moved here from Glasgow were Hornel and Henry. Plus, of course, the all important and ever popular visitor and tourist custom prevails.

THE PROPERTY 

The Selkirk Arms Hotel is an impressive townhouse dating back to 1770 and believed to have been in hotel use continuously since that time and is an Historic Scotland Listed Building, Category B. The hotel split over ground, first and second floors is accessed both from the High Street and from the rear car park.

ACCOMMODATION SUMMARY 

The front of the hotel, accessed via the High Street, leads to reception office with counter behind. 

The hotels accommodation is laid out over 3 main levels, briefly, as follows: 

Public Areas 

• Burns Room Lounge (20) 
• Lounge Bar (38) Bistro (18) 
• Artistas Restaurant (70) 
• The Wee (Public) Bar (16) 
• Function/Meeting Room (within the annexe) (12) 

Letting Accommodation 

17 Bedrooms to sleep 36 

• 8 x Double 
• 5 x Twin 
• 2 x Single 
• 2 x Family 

All bedrooms ensuite - 8 x Bath with Shower; 8 x Shower only; 1 x Bath only 

Service Areas 

• Commercial Kitchen 
• Prep and Wash up Areas 
• Beer Store 
• Spirit Store 
• Laundry 
• General Storage 

Outside 

• Enclosed garden area at the rear 
• Seating terrace for alfresco activities 
• Outdoor pizza oven 
• Private Car Parking (10 spaces)