The ground floor units of Tollgate House, in Market Place, are set to go under the hammer on April 3, according to a Rightmove listing.
Marketed by Strettons Auctions, unit 1 and 1a have a guide price of £395,000.
The Rightmove listing details that unit 1 is currently used as storage by Romford Tollgate House Ltd, with an 18-month tenancy which started in November 2024.
Meanwhile, unit 1a is currently let to phone repair company CRC (London) Ltd for five years from September 2021.
The manager of the Romford CRC branch told the Recorder it was “not aware at all” of the auction and confirmed that the shop was not planning to close.
The commercial units measure 150 sq m and 72 sq m respectively.
Tollgate House was previously up for sale on Rightmove in November 2024 – listed at £1.8 million.
This covered the ground floor units as well as the office space on the upper floors.
A prior approval application (J0013.23) has already been granted – as of November 2023 – to turn the office space across the upper floors of the building into nine flats, with a mixture of one-, two- and three-beds.
The property is now “undergoing building work for the conversion of the upper floors to residential”, according to the auction listing.
However, in June 2024, a change to these plans (J0018.24) was submitted by Mark Carter Associates, on behalf of Turnkey Contracting Ltd, so that each of the flats is now proposed to have two bedrooms.
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Havering Council has yet to make a decision on this change, with an outcome expected by April 18.
Tollgate House was built in 2006, and there was initially hope that the first floor would be used as a pub or restaurant, before it was later changed to office space.
The public auction for the ground floor units of Tollgate House will take place on April 3 at midday.
For more information visit Strettons’ website.
