Freehold Café For Sale Leigh Lancashire

Key Highlights:

• Long-established, highly regarded café on Bradshawgate – Leigh’s main high street
• Freehold property with upstairs space with potential to use as accommodation or storage space
• Average weekly takings £1,200–£1,500 on daytime trade only
• Huge potential for evening bistro trade and alcohol licence (STP)
• Retirement sale – ideal lifestyle business with real growth upside

A longstanding favourite on Bradshawgate, The Coffee Bar offers a rare opportunity to acquire a freehold café with upstairs space, with potential to use as accommodation or additional storage space, in the very heart of Leigh town centre.

Tucked among a mix of national and independent retailers on Leigh’s main high street, the café benefits from strong pedestrian flow, being just a short walk from Spinning Gate Shopping Centre, the busy indoor and outdoor markets and the bus station, with multiple nearby car parks.

The property benefits from an upstairs space, currently accessed via the café, offering potential for reconfiguration (subject to necessary consents) to create a fully self-contained residential unit.

Trading for around 60 years, The Coffee Bar has become known locally for its warm welcome and traditional, home cooked food from hearty breakfasts to comforting lunches and daily specials and enjoys an excellent online reputation with consistently strong reviews. The business is owner-operated and currently generates average weekly sales of £1,200–£1,500 from straightforward daytime opening hours.

There is significant scope for growth in the right hands. A new owner could:

• Extend opening hours into late afternoon and evenings
• Develop a “café by day, bistro by night” concept, building on the cosy, characterful interior
• Apply for an alcohol licence (subject to the usual permissions) to support evening dining, small events and private parties
• Introduce delivery, outside catering or themed nights to capture local office, retail and residential trade

The freehold property comprises the ground-floor café with kitchen and customer seating, together with a two room space above, ideal for an owner operator looking to keep overheads low or as a potential rental income stream.

Leigh itself is a traditional Lancashire market town that has seen and continues to see substantial investment in its town centre, including market refurbishment, public realm improvements and grant schemes to enhance shopfronts. These initiatives, backed by government regeneration and long-term town funding, are designed to boost footfall and trading conditions for businesses exactly like this.

This is a genuine retirement sale after many successful years in our client’s ownership, presenting an ideal opportunity for a hands-on operator, couple or partnership to take over a well-loved, established café and put their own stamp on it.