TAUNTON SOMERSET
This unique site was until 1999 used by the Ministry
of Defence as a base for the Composite Signals Organisation and Training
Facility for GCHQ
The eight acre site was sold to the current owners
following vacation by the M.O.D and a high security commercial facility,
offering outstanding opportunities for low cost, very high quality
accommodation
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The business centre is set in rural Somerset on the
Blackdown Hills in the centre of a designated Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty, with views across the open countryside.Suprisingly,Culmhead is
only about 5 miles from either Junction 25 or 26 of the M5 and the A303.Taunton
town centre is just eight miles away
Spy no more!
The former GCHQ outstation at Culmhead has recently been photographed from a microlight, an act that would have been forbidden a few years ago when it was one of our major spy listening stations. The whole site is now on on the market and Hall Commercial of Hemyock have bought part of the training block to rent as offices, archive storage or light industrial use.The unit has B1.planning consent. Owner Peter Hall says that as the high security aspect remains with secure fencing, alarms and air-conditioning, archive storage for confidential papers from banks or insurance companies is a likely possibility. "The rural location should be ideal for those firms fed up with fighting traffic in Taunton or Bristol. We've had a number of enquiries for accommodation on offer and currently the place is looking busy again. Peter Hall can be contacted on 01823 601461 Email:peter@peterhall.biz
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Turning into the Main Gates of Culmhead Business Centre from the main Taunton to Honiton road, the picture below is the first sight of the complex.
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The front entrance/reception
to Blackdown House.
This is part of the currently available space at Culmhead Business Centre |
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As one proceeds
to the far side of the secure compound,there are two units which project
out from the front building
The first is
Cipher
House ( LET ) approx 10000 sq.ft, approximately 3500 sq,ft of which
has been recently occupied by Somerset County Council and an ink cartridge
re cycling company.
The building
is fully insulated,double glazed and is fully carpeted with heavy duty
suspended floors and insulated suspended ceilings.Full central heating
is available, and air conditioning to the acoustic lecture theatre can
also be made serviceable if required.
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Below is another view of Cipher House
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Inside,Cipher House
has a large acoustic,air conditioned ( if required ) lecture theatre which
could accommodate up to fifty people.
The lecture theatre is equipped with
floor power points for overhead projectors,a podium and substantial well
lit marker board.The lighting is excellent and versatile.
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Another large room available within Cipher House
The dividing walls can be altered to suit individual requirements
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The next building is Yarcombe
House. ( SOLD ) This modern unit comprises a total of approx 15500
sq.ft of office and production accommodation and is serviced with a very
substantial electricity supply.The modern and well appointed offices occupy
about a third of the building.There is an excellent loading bay to the
front of the building which can be seen in the picture below
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Next we see one of the Production areas within Yarcombe House
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The Loading Bay seen on a picture above from the outside is viewed here from the inside within a large storage area
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To one side of Yarcombe House is the office area and this corridor has office accommodation down each side of it.One of the offices is shown in the next picture
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This is a view of a small percentage of the enormous parking area available at the rear of Culmhead Business Centre.It is extremely unlikely that parking will ever be a problem on this site! And there is even more parking area than this at the front.
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This 3500 sq.ft building is available
for use as a light industrial unit and has it's own toilet &wash facilities,overhead
crane,and again an ample supply of electricity,not to mention the huge
area of parking outside the unit
SOLD
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Foundation House,shown
below was aquired by Western Provident Health insurance about eighteen
months ago and now houses their Disaster Recovery Facility,Document Archive
Storage and a Training Facility in 17500 sq.ft. of some of the best office
accommodation in the area
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The remaining office/light industrial buildings at
Culmhead Business centre are available on a Leasehold basis and,
relative to most other accommodation in the area,represent outstanding
value. As a Government owned concern until recently,as one may imagine,these
top specification buildings have been maintained to the highest specification.
To erect buildings like these in the private sector today would in many
cases be just not economic.
There is floorspace of different types to suit from
office to light industrial and areas to cater for a wide sector of
commercial demand.
From Call Centre,Training Facility,Disaster Recovery,Exhibition
Centre and Computer Centre to Self Contained Offices and Light Industrial
Culmhead
Business Centre should be first on the list for
anyone looking for top quality space in the Somerset area, at remakably
low rates
For Further details or viewing of Culmhead please contact Peter Hall
Tel: 01823 601461 ( Home )
Fax: 01823 601467
Mobile: 07977 485610
Email: peter@peterhall.biz
Currently the position with regard to available space at CULMHEAD BUSINESS CENTRE at 2nd JULY 2004 is:
There is still space remaining at £3.50 per sq
ft per annum in
BLACKDOWN HOUSE
There is approx 6000 sq ft remaining available which
has exclusive parking for sixty and additional parking if required
This is the best specification accommodation available at the lowest price anyone has seen for a very long time and this does not happen very often. If you have an interest then come and view, you WILL be impressed ( this does not cost very much at all !! )