Former Gloucester Wilko store has been sold

The building which housed the former Wilko store in Gloucester has been sold for an undisclosed sum.

The building, in Northgate Street, has been left empty and boarded up since the chain went bust in September 2023.

The Gloucester store originally had 140 employees when it opened in 1997 but that number dwindled to fewer than 30 in the years leading up to the closure.

Allsop, the agent managing the sale, set the building's price at £1.3m at an auction that began on Tuesday, but the final amount it went has not been confirmed.

The annual rent for the building was £214,000 a year, Allsop said, adding it had "possible redevelopment or conversion potential".

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