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Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House

A Grade II Listed Building in Colyton, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7409 / 50°44'27"N

Longitude: -3.0705 / 3°4'13"W

OS Eastings: 324559

OS Northings: 94024

OS Grid: SY245940

Mapcode National: GBR PD.VY7S

Mapcode Global: FRA 47G4.1LV

Plus Code: 9C2RPWRH+9Q

Entry Name: Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House

Listing Date: 8 May 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1098530

English Heritage Legacy ID: 87865

ID on this website: 101098530

Location: Colyton, East Devon, EX24

County: Devon

District: East Devon

Civil Parish: Colyton

Built-Up Area: Colyton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Colyton St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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COLYTON
MARKET PLACE (south side)
Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House

(Formerly listed as Premises of DIY Shop, Gribble Booth and Taylor and Law Chambers)

8.5.67

GV
II
Former range of houses with shop and office premises. C16, remodelled in early C19. Plastered stone range with slate roof and stone coping to gable ends. Corner pilasters rusticated at base and with key pattern above. Two storeys. Two and three bays. Sash windows with glazing bars. Parkside Antiques and Merchant's Tea Rooms have Victorian shopfronts with console brackets. Merchant's House has flush panel door with rectangular fanlight. Stone wing at rear with chimney stack at gable end.

Interior: jointed cruck trusses. Merchant's Tea Rooms has heavy moulded timber ceiling and large moulded stone Tudor arch fireplace on rear wall, the arch mutilated and smaller moulded arch doorway inserted. Merchant's House contains circa 1600 moulded plaster ceiling divided into geometric shaped fields with small fleur-de-lis. In same room a painted overmantle of circa 1600 with an arcade containing four female figures representing: experience, good reputation, bad reputation and truth. Passageway with early C17 panelling.

Listing NGR: SY2455594018

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