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Joanne Ridout & Alahna Kindred

Inside abandoned vintage shop with dusty stock and Grade II red phone box on doorstep

This vintage shop has been shut for more than 10 years and still has items on the shelves and flowers in the window.

The General Stores in Mathry, Pembrokeshire, pulled down its shutters in 2009 and appears to be a shop that sold a little bit of everything.

It has a charming red post box, which is now a community library, standing guard at the front door.

The shop is just one of the properties on the site being sold off to anyone looking for a renovation project.

The General Store, Spion Kop Cottage and the whole site are for sale with a guide price of £385,000 with estate agents JJ Morris, WalesOnline reports.

It is a two-storey building with all the shelves and display cabinets in place as products still appear to be organised throughout the store.

There are two storage rooms and a workshop on the ground floor, as well as an adjacent shop within the building that, according to the agent, used to be a toy shop.

Up the staircase and there's a utility room to find on the split-level landing, before climbing again gets you to the first-floor living accommodation that includes a huge space that, once renovated, could be a spectacular open-plan kitchen, diner and lounge.

Mathry is a quiet village located between the coastal town of Fishguard and the historic city of St David's. The village is at the top of a hill with sweeping views towards the coast which means the spot has been populated since the Iron Age.

To the rear of the main building is a surprise addition not really visible from the street at the front of the site, there's only a view of it from approaching the general store from the side.

There's a conservatory at the rear of this property, which is called Spion Kop Cottage, that when completed will be a bonus room for relaxing. Upstairs, the cottage offers two, double bedrooms and a family bathroom

According to the Cadw website, the telephone box was Grade II listed in 1988, amended in 1993, for being in a 'central location within conservation area' and of a K6-type to the standard design of architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, which was introduced in 1936.

The Mathry example of this iconic British structure is said to date back to before 1952, which goes some way to dating the shop behind it too; the shop was not that much has changed inside since those days so many decades ago.

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