A former nightclub has been sold and could now be turned into flats.

The ex-Qube, at St Radigund's Road, Dover, went to a new owner at an auction yesterday.

The former nightspot and function venue had been listed with a guide price of £850,000 to £900,000.

It was sold for an undisclosed sum.

The building is a former malt house dating around 1880 and had planning permission for conversion into 27 flats.

The permission is for 12 one bedroomed flats, 13 two bedroomed ones and two three bedroomed ones.

The sale was handled by land and property auctioneers Clive Emson and valuer Joe Rimmer had said beforehand: “This substantial building is in a plot measuring almost one acre.

“The accommodation will be arranged over three floors.”

This is one of a number of Dover nightclubs that have gone into the history books.

Images, in Castle Street, and Nuage, in Adrian Street, are also long gone after being popular venues for revellers in the 1990s.

Nuage was re-named Studio One by the mid-2000s but the building became disused and was struck by fire last July.

Images, a former cinema, opened as a nightclub in 1985.

It was later renamed Snoops and closed in 2002.

The building was demolished in 2014 and the site is now planned for a mixed-use commercial and residential scheme.

The former Qube was among 155 lots listed in this sale.

Other lots included a three-storey, five bedroomed property in nearby Primrose Road, which went for £90,000.

It is a property in need of improvement.

Another Dover lot was 10 Laureston Place, a freehold block of six flats currently let at £15,600 a year with an estimated full rental of £22,800 per annum.

The freehold sold for £200,000.

An additional lot was a plot of land at Hillside Road in Dover which extends to 2.14 acres (0.87 hectares).

It could be developed with planning permission.

It had a freehold guide price of £55-65,000 but went for £84,000.

Also sold, for £76,000, was a three-bedroomed maisonette at Sheridan Road, Dover, with the remainder of a 199-year lease.

A mid-terraced two bedroomed house needing improvement, at Longfield Road, Dover, went £130,000.

It had a freehold guide price of £110,000-plus.

One more lot was a four-storey period property in Castle Street, Dover, with the freehold selling for £166,000. It could be turned into homes with planning permission.

The next Clive Emson sale is from 11am on Monday, October 29, at the same venue, the Clive Emson Conference Centre, Kent County Showground, Detling.