Jackie'S Tea Rooms The Antiquary

A house, at least partly a shop, dating from around 1700 to 1720, with earlier origins in the 15th or early 16th century. The front of the building is constructed from freestone set on a chamfered plinth, with a Cotswold stone roof and end chimneys, the right-hand chimney being of stunted ashlar. The building follows a typical L-shaped plan, with the front displaying a local Baroque architectural style. It is two storeys and has attics, with a central gabled dormer. A heavy cornice and parapet runs along the top. There are six windows on the first floor, arranged in a left-hand group of three and a right-hand group of two, with glazing-bar sashes in moulded architraves, featuring moulded keys. The ground floor on the right-hand side also contains paired windows. A mid-to-late 19th-century projecting shop front features shallow arch glazing in a four-by-one bay arrangement, alongside a recessed entrance with a carved bracket supporting a fascia on the right. An ashlar dwarf wall with a heavy, chamfered plinth and a cellar grate are also present. A pedimented doorcase with an architrave and pulvinated frieze sits to the right of centre. Lead rainwater heads and pipes flank the front, and first-floor windows are similarly positioned. Internally, the shop on the left-hand side includes a fireplace with an inglenook recessed from the front, alongside evidence of a blocked fireplace closer to the front. The house has undergone alterations. A display cupboard remains in the room on the right-hand side of the ground floor, and on the first floor is a stone fireplace with a pulvinated frieze interrupted by a panelled key and a shelf above. A stone fireplace, possibly from the mid-17th century and believed to have originated from a priory (and previously located in the ground floor front left-hand room), features an eared architrave, frieze, side pilasters, and a garland, alongside a new shelf, within a rear extension. The attic retains an arch-braced truss, potentially dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, and possibly indicating a former two-bay first-floor hall. The plan shows a formerly central alley that has been blocked. A long, two-storey-and-attic, three-bay gabled wing extends to the rear, alongside a further three-storey wing of three windows which incorporates hollow chamfer mullions (some are replicas) and has been altered and extended to the east. The rear north-facing gable wall is timber-framed. A timber-framed staircase is located at the rear, alongside stair lights. The roofline changes angle on the south chimney.