A 696 sq ft shop on the ground floor of 149 Winter Road, Southsea, available to rent now at £1,000 per calendar month. The shop is being emptied and made good before handover, so a new tenant gets a clean, open space to fit out however they need. The one-bedroom flat upstairs has its own separate entrance and is already let to someone else — it is not part of this rental.
Rateable value is the figure your local council uses to work out business rates — it is not the rent. Because this shop's rateable value is under £12,000, most small business tenants pay little or nothing towards rates under the government's Small Business Rate Relief scheme, though this depends on your circumstances and is worth confirming with Portsmouth City Council before you commit.
This is the ground floor of a two-storey brick building, built as part of a row of similar shops along Winter Road. It was most recently run as a hairdressing salon, so it already has a high ceiling, spotlights fitted into the ceiling, and wood-effect flooring across the main shop floor at the front.
Walking in from the street, the main shop floor is one open room. Behind that, there's a small lobby area, then a separate toilet, a kitchen, and a store room for stock or supplies. A door from the store room leads out to a small enclosed yard at the back of the building, which is useful for putting bins out or taking deliveries. The stairs up to the flat are shut off behind their own door, so anyone visiting the shop has no access to the flat upstairs, and vice versa.
The shop is currently fitted out as a working hair salon. Before a new tenant moves in, all of the salon equipment is being taken out — the mirrors, the styling chairs, the wall-mounted hairdryers, the wash basins, the reception desk, the shelving units, and the washing machine and tumble dryer. Once everything is removed, the walls and floor will be patched up and made tidy. The ceiling lights are staying in place, so you will move into an empty, clean shop rather than a stripped building site — ready for you to fit out in whatever style suits your business.
Winter Road is a row of independent shops in central Southsea, about a mile and a half east of Portsmouth city centre. It sits close to Albert Road, which is one of the main streets in Southsea for independent shops, cafés, and bars — so shoppers and visitors are already used to walking around this part of town.
The street itself has a good mix of small, independently-run businesses: convenience shops, cafés, takeaways, hairdressers and salons, and local professional services, with flats above most of the shops just like this building. There's a lot of housing packed into the surrounding streets, plus student accommodation and a large university population nearby, which keeps a steady stream of people walking past. Very few shops on Winter Road sit empty for long, which says something about how reliable the footfall is here.
Get in touch to arrange a viewing, ask any questions about the shop, or find out when it will be ready to move into.