A PROPERTY with a chequered 100-year history has been sold to be converted from a church to accommodation units for students.

Stupples & Co and Aitchison Raffety of High Wycombe have sold the former Church of the Rock, known as Station House, on Amersham Hill, to Coin UK Ltd.

The church has been a cinema, a cafe, offices, a Masonic hall, a music hall and an auction room over the years.

A feature of the building is a part-stained glass window a photograph of the original can be found in the Wycombe Museum.

Finsbury Securities of London acquired the property around a year-and-a-half ago from a local company which received full B1 planning permission to demolish the existing building and rebuild approx 5,121 sq ft of office accommodation.

But Coin UK Ltd, which bought the property for £250,000, intends to convert it to student accommodation.

Stupples & Co has also let another property on Amersham Hill The Old Coach House opposite High Wycombe railway station.

The commercial agent has let the entire office premises of 2,446 sq ft, to the adjoining occupier, Project Management Professional Services Ltd.

PMPSL has taken a nine-year lease from the landlord, Priorhaven Ltd of Pangbourne, near Reading.

-Slough Estates has reported the continuing success of its new development at The Gateway Centre on the Cressex Business Park, with 70 per cent of the buildings now either let or under offer.

Recent lettings have included Star Trac UK Ltd, MicroRent and Culligan Water Treatment, the latter having taken two units totalling some 22,000 sq ft on a lease spanning 15 years.

The remaining units, offering space from approx 7,600 to 24,700 sq ft, are available at rents of £8.50 per sq ft.

Further details are available from joint letting agents Duncan & Bailey-Kennedy on (01494) 450951 or Healey & Baker on (0207) 629 9292.

- The former Post Office at Octagon Parade has finally been let through Stupples & Co after being on the market for more than three years.

Luminar Dancing plc, the owners of Club Eden next door, has taken a new lease from the Post Office and is refurbishing both premises.

- A building dating back to the early 19th century, which was originally a pub, has been bought by Fine-Line Developments of Beaconsfield for an undisclosed sum.

The property at the junction of Woodside Road and White Lion Road in Amersham, which is constructed of knapped flint and rough flint dressing, was being used by the Chiltern Hundreds Housing Association as an office workshop and store. It will now be refurbished as offices. Stupples & Co acted for Chiltern Hundreds throughout the negotiations.

-Slater Associates of Marlow has reported a continued strong letting and sales market since the start of 2001.

The commercial/industrial chartered surveyors acted on behalf of the Michael Shanly Group in the letting of a small office unit on the Rose Business Estate in Marlow Bottom to Aquarius 2000 Ltd on a three-year lease.

It also acted on behalf of Greens Printing Ltd to let its 2,950 sq ft premises off Wycombe Road, Marlow, to UK Credit Insurance Ltd on a new nine-year lease.

Greens Printing has now relocated to new premises of around 10,000 sq ft which it purchased on the Cressex Business Park in Lincoln Road, High Wycombe.

Joint agents Slater Associates and Brown and Merry Commercial have let a small period office block at 4 Chapel Street, Marlow, to Performance Unlimited Ltd.

The premises were quoted for rent at £25,000 per annum on a five/ten-year lease.