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Former pub turned into serviced apartments
A former pub has been turned into a “new boutique collection of serviced apartments”.
The former Cotham Arms on St Michael’s Hill in Kingsdown is now the Cotham Arms Apartments, made up of three studios and two one-bedroom flats.
It is the latest opening from Your Apartment, a Bristol-based business which owns other properties across Bristol including in Brislington, Clifton and Old Market, as well as in London and Milton Keynes.
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Your Apartment co-founder Toby Guest has appealed to owners of pubs to turn them into “aparthotels” and serviced apartments, “allowing them to reap a higher return on their asset(s) due to significantly lower running costs”.
This comes at a time when the traditional British pub is struggling, with nearly 400 pubs closing their doors for good in England and Wales in first half of 2023.
The Cotham Arms in 2017 when it was still a pub – photo: Martin Booth
The Cotham Arms opened in what was previously Chin Chin bar – photo: Martin Booth
Guest said: “Independent British pubs have had a really rough ride in recent years with ever-growing running costs, staffing and skills shortages, the price of beer, wine and even soft drinks reaching record highs, the list goes on and on.
“While it is unfortunate that the Cotham Arms has been through this period, fortunately it has been granted a ray of light at the end of the tunnel.
“The overall transformation of the Cotham Arms into a one-of-a-kind boutique collection of serviced apartments demonstrates the opportunities available to publicans, landlords and developers around the UK.
“Repurposing this type of property allows flexibility for landlords should they wish to preserve any of its unique, character-filled and historical features.
“This also allows them to reap a higher return on their asset(s) due to significantly lower running costs.”
A bedroom at the Cotham Arms Apartments – photo: Your Apartment
Main photo: Martin Booth
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