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Ashbourne Commercial Limited

Specialized retail and commercial services, run from a registered office in Reading

We are a UK company working across retail and commercial activity — sourcing formats, assessing sites, and handling the practical work between a property and the business that trades from it.

Reg 15640328 · Caversham, Reading
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Who you are dealing with

Ashbourne Commercial Limited is a UK company registered in England. Our work sits in the ordinary, unglamorous middle of retail and commercial activity: finding a unit that fits the trade, checking what the building actually supports, and keeping the paperwork honest between landlord, agent and operator. If you want to know who you are speaking to before you start, the registration details are on this page and repeated on our company information page.

We are not a marketplace and we do not list stock. We take on a defined piece of work, explain what it involves, and tell you plainly where our scope stops.

Company registration number 15640328
Registered office 41 Castle Road, Caversham, Reading, England
Telephone 7312690147
Email [email protected]

What we actually do

Four kinds of work, and one of them carries most of our time. Read the lead item first — it explains the part of the job that decides everything else.

Lead service

Retail format and site assessment

Before anyone signs anything, the unit has to suit the trade. We look at frontage and how visible it really is from the road, delivery and servicing access, the pitch of the floor, ceiling height, three-phase capacity, and what the lease permits you to do with the shopfront. Then we put it in writing: what fits, what does not, and what would need money spent on it first. This is the step that saves the most time later, because most unsuitable sites are unsuitable for reasons you can see in twenty minutes if you know what you are looking for.

See how a site assessment runs

Acquisition and disposal support

Heads of terms read line by line, rent and incentive structures compared on the same basis, and a view on what to push back on before you commit.

Lease and property administration

Rent review dates, break options, service charge queries and the correspondence that keeps a tenancy from drifting into an expensive surprise.

Fitting-out and opening coordination

Sequencing the trades so the shopfront, services and shelving land in an order that does not force you to undo work.

A row of retail park units seen in perspective along an empty paved forecourt

Formats we work with

High-street units, solus retail warehouses, retail park bays and foodstore forecourts each behave differently — visibility, servicing and footfall all change with the format, and so does the assessment.

The details that are not negotiable

Company registration is public information. We would rather you checked it here, before a conversation, than took our word for anything. The same figures sit in our footer and on the company information page.

Company registration number

15640328

Registered office: 41 Castle Road, Caversham, Reading, England Company information

How a piece of work runs

Nothing starts with a fee schedule. It starts with a short conversation about what you are trying to open, keep open, or close down — and whether the answer is something we handle.

How we work

  1. First conversation

    You describe the trade, the area you are considering and the rough budget you are working to. We say whether it is a brief we can help with, and what we would need to see before giving a view.

  2. Written scope before work starts

    You get the scope in writing: what we will look at, what we will produce, what we will not do, and what we need from you. If the brief changes, the scope is reissued rather than quietly absorbed.

  3. Site and document work

    We visit, measure, photograph and read the lease. Anything that would materially change the decision goes to you as soon as we find it, not saved up for a report.

  4. Findings, then a decision

    A short written summary of what we found, what it means for the trade you have in mind, and the options from here. You decide what happens next; we do not chase a signature.

  5. Handover

    Everything we hold on the file goes across to you or to whoever is taking it on — correspondence, notes, photographs, dates. Nothing is held back to keep you dependent on us.

Wet paving in front of a shopfront, with a glazing frame edge cutting across the upper corner

What the visit tells us

Photographs and measurements from a site visit often settle a question that three rounds of email cannot — how the light falls, how water sits, how a delivery would actually reach the door.

What each format asks of you

A short comparison of the four property types we handle most. It is not a ranking — the right format depends on your trade, your budget and how much space you can service properly.

High-street unit Town centres with passing footfall and an evening economy Frontage width, rear access for deliveries, and what the shopfront consent allows
Solus retail warehouse Standalone sites on arterial routes and edge-of-town locations Yard depth and turning circle, power capacity, and the height you can actually use
Retail park bay Purpose-built parks with shared parking and a comparison shopping draw Service charge terms, permitted use restrictions, and how the park is anchored
Foodstore forecourt Convenience-led sites with a strong drive-to and repeat visit pattern Fuel or forecourt obligations, drainage, and access that stays clear at peak times

Questions we get before the first call

Four things people usually want cleared up. If yours is not here, the FAQ page covers more ground.

Read the full FAQ
Do you cover the whole of the UK, or only the South East?
Our registered office is in Caversham, Reading, and most of our work is within reach of that on a normal working day. We do take on briefs further afield where the format is one we know well — solus retail warehousing and retail park bays in particular. If travel is a factor, we will say so up front and price it openly rather than folding it into a day rate.
What do you need from me before you can give a view on a site?
The address, the type of trade you intend to run, and any lease or heads of terms you already hold. If there is a floor plan or a set of measurements, send them — it shortens the first visit. If you have none of that yet and only have a rough idea of the area, that is still a workable starting point; we will tell you what is missing and whether it is worth gathering.
Are you acting as the agent, or working for me?
On most briefs we work for the occupier, not the landlord — which means our findings are written for you and may well conclude that a particular unit is a poor idea. Where a matter requires a regulated activity such as a formal valuation or legal advice, we say so and point you to someone qualified to do it. We would rather hand over a piece of work than pretend to cover it.
What happens to the information I send you?
It is used to answer your enquiry and to run the brief if you go ahead. It is not sold on, and it is not passed to a landlord or agent without you knowing. Our privacy policy sets out what is held, why, and how to ask for it to be removed.

Start with the site, not the paperwork

Tell us the trade, the area and the rough budget. We will come back with what we would look at first, whether the brief is one we can take on, and what a written scope would cover. Calls are answered Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

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