Written by: Adrian Little on 6th August 2024
The former Brookhill Nursery, in the village of Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham, is to go up for auction this month with a guide price of £100,000. The building will appear in the next online auction to be held by South Yorkshire auction house Mark Jenksinon, part of the Eddisons group, on 13 August.
Brookhill was one of more than 20 nurseries and out-of-school clubs run by the Suffolk-based Alpha Nurseries group, which announced the closure of all its facilities in January this year due to financial problems. Joint fixed term receivers have now instructed that the nursery is to be auctioned.
Adrian Little, a director at auctioneer Mark Jenkinson, said: “The closure of a nursery is always sad news for the families who use its services, and we hope that Brookhill will find a buyer at auction who will bring the site back to life.”
He added: “It’s in a great location, just half a mile from junction 35 of the M1 and in a really popular residential area, so it has great potential, either as a nursery of for a range of alternative uses, subject to a buyer gaining the necessary planning consent.”
The former Brookhill nursery is a 1,500 sq ft single-storey pre-fabricated property on a 0.2 acre site between Sheffield and Rotherham. It will feature in the next online property auction to be held by Mark Jenkinson on 13 August at www.markjenkinson.co.uk
Written by: Adrian Little on 6th August 2024
Over the last 40 years Adrian has been involved in the sale by auction of over 10,000 properties in the Yorkshire and Humber region, ranging from small sites and ground rents to large industrial estates and residential investments. He has been most fortunate to have sold many landmark buildings throughout the region and is particularly interested in properties that require modernisation, restoration or redevelopment.
Having spent many hours on the rostrum at Bramall Lane, he saw the incredibly successful transition to online auctions seeing some £100m of residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial lots being sold for private, corporate and local authority clients. In March 2023, he joined Eddisons and Pugh & Co to forward this success and continue to offer personal service with a larger national presence .
