Colchester Silk Road nightclub building and flats for sale

The block of flats in St Botolph’s Street in Colchester is above The Silk Road nightclub.

The ground floor commercial space and five two-bedroom flats and one one-bedroom flat are being marketed as a freehold mixed-use block.

Nightclub - inside the Silk Road nightclub (Image: Zoopla/ Northwood)

The flats are said to be “refurbished to a high standard”.

The property is listed with the option of being made available as vacant possession or with the ground-floor nightclub as a trading business.

In the features of the property package listed, the site is suitable for a variety of different uses including for a hotel.

Refurbished - inside one of the flats above Silk Road (Image: Zoopla/ Northwood)

The ground floor commercial space is 267 square metres, and the flats range from 66 square metres to 166 square metres.

A planning application for the homes above the nightclub was approved by Colchester Council in May 2023.

The plans received objections from Colchester residents and groups.

The Colchester Civic Society was unhappy with the replacement of windows at the front of the building.

Spacious - open plan space at one of the flats (Image: Zoopla/ Northwood)

Terrace - outdoor area of Silk Road nightclub (Image: Zoopla/ Northwood)

A spokesman said: “It is quite clear that the original timber windows have been removed and replaced by UPVC alternatives.

“On a building of Local Listed importance such as this, this is a highly detrimental loss particularly to the curve-topped front windows which UPVC cannot emulate.”

Colchester Council’s planning committee voted to accept resubmitted blueprints for new windows at Silk Road at a meeting earlier this year. 

Councillors had previously ruled the UPVC windows must be replaced with timber ones because of concerns plastic windows would ruin the character of the conservation area.