With an address of 17 Burnley Road, the beautiful grade II listed former bank is one of the most iconic buildings in Padiham. Empty since Barclays left the town in 2017, the building has gone through lots of ideas before the perfect tenant was found by Pendle Hill Properties - The Cobra's Den Boxing Gym.
Built in 1893 by William Dent of Nelson, the late Victorian building has stood firm ever since. With an unusual triangular shape, it occupies several floors and has a circular staircase tower with a conical roof, and was painstakingly built up the steep hill.
Passers by might never know that the entire ground floor wall to the rear of the property features stunning stained glass windows, and there are many original features inside, including an incredible mosaic floor, which visitors to the bank in the past might remember was in front of the counter.
Current tenants The Cobra's Den were looking for a compact space to house their boxing gym, and were keen to preserve as many original features as possible to make their training environment something spectacular and inspiring.
Seamus Devlin, Head Coach commented: "It was a shell when we got here, and now we're building it slowly but surely. We've got the boxing ring set up downstairs. We've converted the cellar, and added floor to ceiling balls and heavy bags. We've done a lot of work in here, and redecorated everything. We've had to varnish and try and restore the woodwork. It's all going smoothly. Thanks to Pendle Hill Properties, it was a smooth transition, an easy process, and very quick!"
Built in 1893 by William Dent of Nelson, the late Victorian building has stood firm ever since. With an unusual triangular shape, it occupies several floors and has a circular staircase tower with a conical roof, and was painstakingly built up the steep hill.
Passers by might never know that the entire ground floor wall to the rear of the property features stunning stained glass windows, and there are many original features inside, including an incredible mosaic floor, which visitors to the bank in the past might remember was in front of the counter.
Current tenants The Cobra's Den were looking for a compact space to house their boxing gym, and were keen to preserve as many original features as possible to make their training environment something spectacular and inspiring.
Seamus Devlin, Head Coach commented: "It was a shell when we got here, and now we're building it slowly but surely. We've got the boxing ring set up downstairs. We've converted the cellar, and added floor to ceiling balls and heavy bags. We've done a lot of work in here, and redecorated everything. We've had to varnish and try and restore the woodwork. It's all going smoothly. Thanks to Pendle Hill Properties, it was a smooth transition, an easy process, and very quick!"
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00:00 I'm Seamus Devlin, I'm the head coach and part owner of the business here at the Corbers Den.
00:05 I'm Dominic Thompson, I'm the managing director of the company.
00:09 We're in Paddyham, Lancashire on Burnley Road, it's called the Corbers Den.
00:12 Eventually we want to get it affiliated, amateur affiliated, and I'm going down the professional route.
00:17 So I'll have my trainer's seconds and my manager's licence and I'll be able to officially train professional boxers from this place.
00:23 I've noticed as well the social aspect is just as important as the actual training and the physical training itself.
00:28 That's why we've incorporated the mental health professionals on site 24/7 which will soon be implemented.
00:33 We're working with the police at the moment trying to get kids off the street.
00:36 We've had the council involved, we're holding mental health sessions, that's coming soon.
00:41 It's going to be a community centre as well as a boxing gym, so it's going to be like a community hub.
00:45 We're doing some outreach work and working with a lot of underprivileged kids and doing different work outside of the gym as well.
00:50 We've got a good infrastructure, we've got a lot of things set up, a lot of things in place and it's an exciting future.
00:55 We found it on the website, contacted Pendle Hill, come and viewed it and basically it was just a done deal straight away.
01:02 We're big enough for the boxing, brought Seamus in who was happy with it.
01:05 We've done a lot of work in here, redecorated everything, we've had to varnish and try and restore the woodwork.
01:11 There's still little bits here and there that need doing, we've also got the upstairs floor, we're still figuring out how to make the best of that.
01:17 Yeah, it was a shell when we got here and now we're building it slowly but surely, we've got there.
01:22 As you can see we've got the boxing ring, downstairs we have the floor to ceiling balls, the heavy bags.
01:29 We've got different equipment up here like the pads, the noodles, we've got the steppers, we've got the weights, the balls rolling.
01:35 It's all going smooth, so yeah, 110% recommend Pendle Hill Properties, it was a smooth transition, an easy process, very quick and I'd 110% recommend them to anybody else.
01:45 [Music]