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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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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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 87865
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.