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Guide Price£4,200,000

1 Whitworth Avenue, Aycliffe Business Park, Newton Aycliffe, Durham

Land size
2.95 acres
Use Class
Use Classes: B2, B8

Key Features

  • Proposed new 25-year lease on sale and leaseback
  • Guide price showing low rate of £32.65psf and 10.06% NIY
  • Established industrial location with good access to motorway
  • Long established occupier, since construction

Description

We are pleased to offer this property for Sale and Lease back under long lease. The property comprises a series of 5 warehouses with associated yard and car parking. The main warehouse was constructed in the 1990's and has been owned and occupied by the vendor since construction. This unit is of steel portal frame construction with office and staff facilities having dock loading to the eastern aspect and additional loading, yard and parking to the north and west. Eaves within the building extend to between 4.25m to 5.25m

To the east of the site are 4 further warehouse units, formerly split into 26 individual units the owner acquired these buildings in 2019 and they have been modified to form several individual warehouse stores with large central yard and dual site access from Whitworth Avenue to the north and Beaumont Way in the south. These units are also steel portal frame with eaves of 3.5m to 4.95m.

Total floor area of all buildings of 11,949.68 m2 / 128,628 ft2 inclusive of mezzanines which extend to 503.26 m2 / 5,417 ft2.

The total site area is some 2.58 hectares / 6.38 acres showing sub 50% gross site coverage.

Map Location

Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
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Date Posted
2026-09-14

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Superfast · available to 20% of premises

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School0.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    179
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Sugar Hill Primary School1 mileOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    448
    Type
    Community school
  • Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School1.2 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    285
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Woodham Burn Community Primary School and Nursery1.3 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    222
    Type
    Academy converter
  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School1.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    150
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
    Faith
    Roman Catholic

Secondary

  • UTC South Durham832 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    14 to 19
    Pupils
    421
    Type
    University technical college
  • Greenfield Academy1.5 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    566
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Woodham Academy1.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,071
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Longfield Academy3.9 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    660
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Wyvern Academy4.6 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    464
    Type
    Academy sponsor led

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Daily Newton Aycliffe Simpastur, Newton Aycliffe0.7 miles
Morrisons Daily Newton Aycliffe Neville Parade, Newton Aycliffe1 mile
Morrisons Daily Newton Aycliffe Oakfields, Newton Aycliffe1 mile

GP surgery

Bewick Crescent Surgery1 mile

Pharmacy

Neville Pharmacy1 mile

Hospital

West Park Hospital4.2 miles

Green space

Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces937 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Heighington Rail Station824 metres

Nearest bus stop

Durham Way346 metres

Typical drive times

Shildon11 min · 5.7 miles
Ferryhill11 min · 6.8 miles
Sedgefield13 min · 9.8 miles
Durham (city)22 min · 14 miles
Newton Aycliffe4 min · 1.5 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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