Castle Hl
Tongwynlais CF15 7JS
Castell Coch · Property For Lease

This unique opportunity is for an ideally experienced operator to run the Café/Tea Rooms contained within the Castle building. The operator will have benefit of the existing (refurbished 2016) high quality kitchen area and tea room fixtures and fittings. Further opportunity exists to operator an additional external catering facility, situated at the entrance to the Castle but outside payment area. This would be available at an additional annual cost. The operator will have access to the growing visitor numbers Castell Coch attracts annually, together with opportunity to tap into the nearby resident population in areas including Taffs Well, Tongwynlais and other parts of Northern Cardiff. Castell Coch is one of Wales' premier visitor attractions attracting in excess of 70,000 visitors annually (pre COVID-19) and is situated on the outskirts of Cardiff built above the village of Tongywylais. The castle is a renowned 19th Century William Burgess designed building, formerly owned by the Marquis of Bute and gifted by the Bute family into public sector ownership. The castle is now in the control and management of Cadw. Castell Coch occupiers a highly visible position on the edge of Cardiff visible from M4 motorway and itself has benefit of extensive views across Cardiff and the Severn Estuary. The immediate area surrounding he castle has also become a popular location for walkers, mountain bikers and horse riders, with a network of woodland walks and cycle routes running past and starting/finishing at the location.