Historic Bearwood Corks Social Club on the market with Bond Wolfe and Watling Real Estate

A historic former working men’s social club near Birmingham with redevelopment potential subject to planning is on the market with Bond Wolfe and Watling Real Estate.

Bearwood Corks Social Club, which is on the busy A4030 Bearwood Road in Smethwick less than 3.5 miles from Birmingham city centre, first opened more than 100 years ago and hosted a wide variety of community events and activities. It was notably the home venue of legendary jazz saxophonist Andy Hamilton’s Silvershine Jazz Club as well as up-and-coming musicians such as Soweto Kinch, Edgar Macias and Xhosa Cole, who became Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 2018. The club fell into administration last month and Watling Real Estate and Bond Wolfe have been instructed as joint agents to sell the property on behalf of joint administrators Jon Roden and Rob Parker of Grant Thornton.

Bearwood Corks Social Club is located immediately adjacent to the main retail pitch and residential area of Bearwood, where local occupiers include Iceland, Aldi, Argos, Costa Coffee, Peacocks, Lloyds Pharmacy and Poundland. Lordswood School, St Gregorys Catholic Primary School, Bearwood Primary School and Abbey Infant and Junior Schools are all a short walk away. There are various bus stops immediately adjacent to the property providing regular services to Birmingham city centre and the wider West Midlands, with both Smethwick Rolfe Street and Smethwick Galton Bridge train stations also within close proximity.

The property comprises 8,526 sq ft on a 0.25-acre site and was originally a residential property of traditional red brick construction. There have been various extensions over the years including a two-storey ballroom and snooker room built in 1958.

Toby O’Sullivan, director at Watling Real Estate, said: “The former Bearwood Corks Social Club is a prominent building in a popular residential suburb of Birmingham offering excellent redevelopment potential to residential or mixed-use accommodation, subject to planning. We expect to receive significant interest in the property given its location and alternative use potential and therefore encourage all interested parties to get in touch with Watling or Bond Wolfe as soon as possible.”

The property has provisionally been entered into Bond Wolfe’s property auction on 12 September but all pre-auction offers will be considered.

Further details can be found at this link Bearwood Corks Social Club, and via Lily Gartland at [email protected], Ben Holyhead at [email protected] or Toby O’Sullivan at [email protected].