A SECOND North Craven pub has come on the market offering a chance for prospective landlords to take over.

The Crown, at Horton-in-Ribblesdale, is being offered leasehold at £149,950.

It offers 10 letting rooms - seven with ensuite bathrooms - and is popular with hikers, bikers and cyclists visiting this area of the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire Three Peaks. It also sits on the Pennine Way which is another popular walking route.

The pub offers riverside pub dining with a garden. There is car parking at the front with additional riverside overflow car park to the side for a further 20+ cars.

There is an entrance to the lounge bar and separate snug surrounding a central two-sided bar. Dining/breakfast room for hotel B&B residents. Substantial, commercially equipped catering kitchen.

The business has been operated by the present leaseholders for the last 14 years and is only being sold now due to ill health. It has a tie on beer sales alone, leaving good margins of profitability on food, wine and liquor. An outbuilding attached to the hotel provides a three-bedroomed manager’s residence with private parking. A further attached outbuilding provides a walk-in freezer and manager’s office.

The lease is being offered for sale by Ernest Wilson & Co, Leeds, 0113 519 5901.

Last month the Helwith Bridge pub was placed on the market with Christie & Co for a freehold price of £350,000.