Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House
Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House, Market Place, Colyton, EX24 6JR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098530
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House
- Statutory Address:
- Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House, Market Place, Colyton, EX24 6JR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098530
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House, Market Place, Colyton, EX24 6JR
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Parkside Antiques, Merchant's Tea Rooms and Merchant's House, Market Place, Colyton, EX24 6JR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colyton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 24559 94024
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 July 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SY 2494
24/187
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87865
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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