Isle of Wight shops and homes at auction in May with Clive Emson

The former home of popular Isle of Wight attraction, Brading Waxworks, is one of them.

Rectory Mansion, a historic landmark building on the main road through Brading, has a guide price of £200,000 to £220,000.

The commercial investment at 46-48 High Street, with planning permission for partial residential conversion, is arranged as business/retail units let to a number of smaller occupiers.

It is currently let but there are also three empty units that could be rented out.

There is planning consent for the upper two floors to be converted into residential accommodation, with continued commercial activity on the ground floor.

The building is centred around an attractive central courtyard.

In Shanklin, a short distance from the theatre, a freehold row of three lock-up shops occupies a prominent trading position at 52, 52A and 52B High Street.

The shops on Shanklin High Street (Image: Clive Emson)

The guide price is £60,000-plus.

The third unit, 52B, is let under the terms of a commercial lease and trading as a barber shop.

Cyprus House, a detached six-bedroom house “for improvement or development”, is at the end of a driveway accessed off Victoria Avenue, Shanklin.

Cyprus House, in Shanklin (Image: Clive Emson)

With a freehold guide price of £575,000 to £600,000, the property, with accommodation over four floors, is on 0.59 acres and is comes with vacant possession.

There's a games room, further storage rooms, an additional shower room and a playroom which has the foundations already dug for the installation of a swimming pool.

There is ample parking on the driveway at the front with vehicular access available directly into the garden.

A freehold mixed used building at 120 High Street, Ryde, has a guide price of £250,000-plus and is currently let at £27,850 per annum.

It is a three-storey freehold building arranged as a lock-up retail unit on the ground floor which is trading as a hair and beauty salon. The first and second floors are occupied by four studio flats.

A former branch of Barclays bank, which then served as offices for Jerome & Co Solicitors and has since seen the first floor converted into a long leasehold flat, has a guide price of £90,000-plus. It can be found at 11 High Street, Sandown.

A town centre investment with consent for five additional flats has a guide price of £400,000-plus, at 20 and 21 High Street and 22 Anglesea Street, Ryde.

The lot comprises three commercial premises which are let to WH Smith, in situ since 2000, and two smaller local companies, Crepe Lovers and Good As Gold Beauty.

This commercial lot houses a WHSmith (Image: Clive Emson)

A former council works depot on 0.76 acres of land at Victoria Crescent, Ryde, with planning permission for five houses, has a freehold guide price of £300,000-plus.

Teddys, Avenue Road, Freshwater, is a freehold investment with a guide price of £60,000 to £65,000. The building comprises a ground floor commercial unit with vacant possession and a first floor flat sold on a long lease.

Freehold, with vacant possession, a two-bedroom cottage at 64 Leeson Road, Ventnor, has a guide price of £90,000 to £95,000, described as ideal for letting or a weekend retreat/holiday home.

64 Leeson Road, Ventnor (Image: Clive Emson)

At 2 Kent Road, Ventnor, a three/four-bedroom town centre house has a freehold guide price of £140,000-plus and, the Auctioneers suggest, is worthy of the “significant upgrading and refurbishment required”.

2 Kent Road, Ventnor (Image: Clive Emson)

On a 0.20-acre plot, Chale Barn, Chale Street, Chale, has a freehold guide price of £75,000-plus. The substantial agricultural barn, with views over open countryside and the English Channel, may have “potential for conversion and/or site redevelopment, subject to all necessary consents being obtainable”.

Chalked as a “house for improvement”, Kingfishers in New Road, Porchfield, has a guide price of £300,000-plus.

Freehold land on the east side of 9 Woodvale Road, Cowes, on 0.67 acres, has a guide price of £25,000 to £30,000 and is described as “overgrown”. 

A five-bedroom detached house called Camp View, at Rew Street, Gurnard, is guided freehold at £260,000 to £280,000, with vacant possession.

The auction ends on Wednesday, May 1, with bidding live 48 hours before.