A derelict pub which became a private members pole-dancing club is to go under the hammer.

The Three Squirrels alongside the A249 at Stockbury, Sittingbourne, will be auctioned by Clive Emson at the end of the month with a guide price of between £380,000 and £420,000.

It comes with 11 acres of land (4.6 hectares), six stables, a car park and a chequered history.

A 13-minute video explores the inside of the derelict building and reveals its original bars are still in place.

The camera walks through the downstairs showing the abandoned bars, empty optics, beamed ceilings, old red carpets, curtains, boarded up windows and a kitchen kitted out with stainless steel equipment.

Upstairs are six bed and breakfast-style rooms with en suite showers.

The video paints a sad picture of what was once a popular watering hole for customers using the A249 between Maidstone and Sittingbourne back in 2004 before it became a £10-a-year Secret Squirrels private members gentlemen's club in 2008.

Stag and hen parties often ended up there and in 2009 it introduced women's mud-wrestling tournaments.

It was also linked with the notorious Securitas robbery in Tonbridge back in 2008.

In 2012, Chris Champion and his grandad Malcolm Champion, who was 73 at the time and came from Bromley, bought the premises for £155,000, determined to return it to its former glory as a family-friendly country pub.

But the pair ran out of money and the £50,000 of refurbishment work was never completed.

Mr Champion said at the time: “You name it we’ve got to do it. It’s basic things just to get the place in some sort of order. There have been a lot more problems than we expected. We are making progress but it’s not fast.”

The former pub, lot 150, is part of an online auction which opens on October 31 and ends on Wednesday, November 2.

The auctioneers say it has "good potential" for a "variety of schemes" to utilise the "generous accommodation".

There is another two-bedroom property to the rear of the site over two floors and two brick-built sheds and a garage.

Among other premises going under the hammer in the same auction are: a lock-up garage in Ivy House Road, Whitstable, with a guide price of £16,000; a former lock-up barber's shop in Dover Road, Folkestone, for £50,000; and a detached derelict bungalow in Longfield Hill for between £250,000 to £275,000.

There is a "substantial" four-bedroom Georgian period property which hasn't been touched "for many years" in Margate's Old Town near the seafront for up to £240,000 and a "very rare opportunity" to snap up a parcel of land on the outskirts of Maidstone fronting the River Medway and access over the Medway tow path for £40,000.

A former Methodist chapel in Lynsted Lane, Teynham, might go for a song. It has a guide price of £200,000. The auctioneers say it might be suitable to be converted into one or two homes.

There is also a four-storey terraced town house overlooking the sea in Marine Parade, Sheerness, offered as an "investment opportunity" for £320,000. It is currently divided up into flats and taking £695 a month in rent.

For details of the auction, click here.