The Liverpool Arms has been placed on the market, but a restrictive covenant ends any hopes of it being re-opened.

The former pub in Baldrine is up for sale, with planning permision also being sought for it to be reclasiffied as a residential property.

The pub, on the Main Road, Baldrine, closed last year when D’s Leisure Ltd, which operated the pub under landlord Nigel Dobson, ceased trading.

The building, which is owned by the brewery Heron and Brearley, is listed on Black Grace Cowley’s website, priced at £310,000.

The listing says: ’A rare opportunity to purchase a prominent country property.

’The buildings are predominantly stone-built, rendered and under twin pitched and slated roofs, with a large carpark.

’The property will be sold without the benefit of a licence and with a covenant preventing the use of the property in the future as licensed premises.’

The listing continues to detail the building’s two bars on the ground floor with living space above. There is an enclosed rear yard.

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While approval is being sought by the current owners to change the use into a residential property, it is noted it could also be used for other purposes.

The Examiner understands that the covenant is commonly placed on former public houses when they are sold.

The sale could result in there being no retail commercial premises in Lonan.

Following the closure of the Garwick Stores in Baldrine in previous years, the Liverpool Arms had been the only existing outlet.

The pub - once named the Half Way House - was run by Garff commissioner Nigel Dobson from 2000 until it closed suddenly in October 2017.

At the time, Mr Dobson blamed a lack of regulars to the pub, a decline in the industry and the loss of government catering contracts for the decision to close.

He’s now told the Examiner: ’I’m personally very sad that the Liverpool Arms won’t be re-opening.’

A pub has stood on the site for well over a century.

The Black Grace Cowley listing says the building was ’originally trading as a public house/country inn, dating back to the 19th century’.

The Examiner contacted Heron and Brearley for a comment on the sale and licence covenant placed on the former pub, but the brewery had not responded when we went to press.