Rear Workshop, Smarden Rd
Charing TN27 0RF
Former Weeks’ Garage Site · Industrial Property For Lease · 2,476 SF

The former Weeks Garage site lies on the northern side of Smarden Road, roughly a mile south-west of the village of Pluckley in mid-Kent. This is a very rural location, with the nearest A road being the A20 four miles to the north-east at Charing, which gives access to the M20 and the motorway network at Ashford, a further 5 miles or so to the south-east. Ashford, one of Kent’s designated growth centres, currently has a population of approximately 85,000 inhabitants and is set to grow substantially in the next 20 years. The town is centrally located within the county, benefitting from a fine communications network via the A20/M20 and five mainline railways. Ashford International Passenger station can give direct access to northern continental Europe via Eurostar, and London is some 38 minutes distant via HS-1. This workshop building of steel portal frame construction forms part of a larger complex formerly known as Pluckley Coachworks but now divided into multiple units. The front part is currently let as a farm shop and a former antique shop shortly to go to the market. This workshop was previously used for light steel fabrication and provides a little over 1,300 sq.ft. of workshop/warehouse accommodation in the main building, with a covered store/loading area to the front of a little over 300 sq.ft. in addition to a small secure store of nearly 60 sq.ft. and a side office of a little over 100 sq.ft. There is a securely fenced yard and gated entrance to the side and rear. Also in the rear is an unusual building created from two steel cargo containers and lightweight steel fabrication, providing further storage/studio/showroom/office accommodation of nearly 990 sq.ft. The main workshop has an eaves height of some 14 ft 6 in, rising to an apex of 20 ft 6 in. It is accessed via a steel roller shutter door some 14 ft wide by 12 ft high, within which there is a separate ‘wicket gate’ personnel entrance. The unit has a concrete floor, skylights, and LED fluorescent strips. There is a shared WC on site.