Another care home on the cards for Marlborough?

A former care home is being brought to the market – with estate agents saying it could be used for the care of the elderly once more.

Until July last year, Cherry Orchard House was used by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust as an impatient assessment and treatment centre for adults with learning disabilities, known as Postern House.

The two-storey property was purpose built as a care home in the 1970s. The 11,000 sq ft building set within just over an acre of land backs on to St John’s Academy.

The particulars of the property, which is being marketed by the healthcare department of estate agent Savills, says a former assessment and treatment centre is located on the upper ground floor while office space in provided below.

The property has been altered twice since it was first built, once in the 1990’ and again in 2011.

Colin Rees-Smith, director of healthcare at Savills, said: “Cherry Orchard House boasts a sizeable plot close to Marlborough town centre.

“The property has the potential to continue operating as a care home whilst also lending itself to change of use, subject to planning, and we therefore anticipate strong interest from both care home operators and developers.”

The closing date for offers by informal tender is next Wednesday, September 2.

• There are currently three complexes for retired people or the elderly either in the planning process or under construction in Marlborough: Renaissance Retirement’s 28 luxury apartments off London Road, which was given approval by Marlborough Town Council last month; McCarthy and Stone’s 27 retirement apartments at the foot of Granham Hill, which were given planning permission by Wiltshire Council back in February; and Beechcroft Developments’ new 64-bed care home with 28 assisted living units at Salisbury Road – a range of two bedroom apartments are now on sale priced from £285,000 along with two and three-bedroom houses ranging from £435,000.