A once-popular city centre pub, known for its craft ales, live music and pizzas has been has been put up for rent.
The CAMRA-award-winning pub Criterion, in Millstone Lane, Leicester, closed its doors for the last time three years ago, and despite various attempts to reopen, stayed that way.
Now it is being offered to rent for £25,000 a year through Leicester agent Kal Sangra Shonki Brothers.
Back in August 2019, a director of Dhillons Group – a London-based family business – told LeicestershireLive that the pub was planning to become Dhillon's Pub and Pizza, focusing on "great pizza and great beers".
A year later it was reported that the pub had undergone a full refurbishment, but the opening had been delayed due to Covid-19.
The pub was built as the Nags Head by Burton brewers Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton in 1960, and was turned into The Criterion Free House in 2003.
According to the agent's details, the recently refurbished ground floor covers more than 2,400 sq ft, with two bars, a kitchen, basement and loos.
Outside, there are two parking spaces and a seating area. Fixtures and fittings can be purchased for £50,000.
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The building is over the road from the main De Montfort University campus and next to a big chunk of the city’s student housing and has a licence for the sale of alcohol between 11am and 2am, seven days a week.
Kal Sangra, director and auctioneer, told LeicestershireLive: “We are pleased to have received instructions for letting The Criterion on Millstone Lane.
"It is a prime location with its close proximity to the city centre as well as the University campus.
"Not only that, it is such a well-known pub that many locals miss, so there is that community vested interest in the building.
"As soon as we began marketing we started generating a range of interest. It has been exciting for myself and the team to hear of prospective tenants' plans and their visions for the site."
Full details can be viewed on the agent's website.
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