The Function Room, Pinewood Complex, Laburnum Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 1DE
Description
The Function Room – Pinewood Complex - £1000pcm (Plus rates and service charges) | A fantastic opportunity to lease a large function retail unit in a prominent location within Douglas. | This commercial unit is 198 square meters with entrance hall, large function room (14m by 8m) with floor to ceiling mirror, full kitchen, male and female changing rooms with shower and w/c and two large storage cupboards. There is a private carpark, and plenty of unlimited parking on the street. | The current tenants have used and hired out this unit for baby and children’s classes, band rehearsals, performing arts classes and rehearsals, fitness and martial arts classes. Tenancy Information Minimum Term - 12 Months and then a rolling two months tenancy Service charge £133 (to be increase in October 2026 to approx £143) & Rates 2026-27 TBA
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Nearby
- SchoolPulrose School0.19 mi · 4 min walk · 1 min drive
- GP surgerySnaefell Surgery0.68 mi · 15 min walk · 2 min drive
- DentistRavat & Ray Dental Care0.81 mi · 17 min walk · 3 min drive
- SupermarketTesco0.99 mi · 21 min walk · 3 min drive
- PubThe Pinewood0.01 mi · 0 min walk · 0 min drive
- RestaurantThe Pavilion at Douglas Golf Club0.20 mi · 4 min walk · 1 min drive
- CaféAqua Café0.22 mi · 5 min walk · 1 min drive
- Petrol stationThe Milestone0.36 mi · 8 min walk · 1 min drive
- AirportIsle of Man Airport8.7 mi · 28 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Isle of Man amenities — not every pub, café or shop on the island, so treat this as a useful sample, not a complete picture. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to the Isle of Man's roads and 25/35mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.
Masts nearby
- Mobile phone mastSure260 yards away
- Mobile phone mastManx Telecom260 yards away
- Communication mastUnnamed on the map0.46 miles away
- Mobile phone mastSure0.88 miles away
Read this before drawing a conclusion. These are masts mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors — 38 communication structures for the whole island, 29 of them tagged as carrying a mobile network. The operators run considerably more sites than that, so a mast not shown here is not evidence there isn't one. There is no official Isle of Man mast register to check against: Ofcom's Sitefinder never covered the island and the Communications Commission publishes no list. Nothing in this data says which generation a mast carries, so none of it can tell you whether a site is 5G.
What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £3,229/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 6 Douglas properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses real Isle of Man build rates: £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Isle of Man actually grants that kind of application.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£45,207 | £52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000 |
−£7,293 | 0% (314) |
| Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m² |
£64,582 | £41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000 |
+£23,582 | 0% (46) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£90,415 | £105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000 |
−£14,585 | 0% (66) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£34,874 | £67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000 |
−£32,626 | 0% (199) |
Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale, because the Isle of Man's sold register records no floor areas at all — so it reflects what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.
The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth around £430,000 island-wide. It isn't — a 4-bed is generally a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.
Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — what work of this kind actually gets approved here shows how often applications like yours succeed, and on what grounds the refusals go.
Building work on this property
Same estimate model this site uses on its planning pages (UK cost ranges with the Isle of Man's 18% uplift) — a rough starting point, not a quote. Always get quotes from an Isle of Man builder before budgeting.
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Sale history
No prior sale found in the Isle of Man property register for this address.
Planning history
No planning application found in this site's planning dataset for this address.
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