3, Regent Street

A library and publishing house, now a shop, was built around 1815 by WE Rolfe of London, with a shop front added around 1900. The building is constructed of painted stucco with a slate roof, featuring three rectangular glazed lanterns. It has an L-shaped plan, including a rear wing to the right.

The exterior is two storeys and four bays, arranged symmetrically with a three-window front and a set-back fourth bay to the right. The facade has a stepped panelled parapet above a central bowed bay, displaying the raised words 'The Royal Library'. A platband runs below. The first floor has full-height French windows with margin panes and intersecting glazing bars, flanked by narrow recessed panels containing reeded shafts with moulded caps and pointed spikes. A single tall three-pane casement window with overlights is positioned to the right. A stepped and canted shop front incorporates a double row of small-paned windows, along with twentieth-century double doors and plate-glass windows.

The interior is primarily lined with tongue-and-groove matchboarding, with twentieth-century shop fittings. A simple oak staircase to the rear left, with a moulded handrail and stick balusters, leads to a rectangular balustered gallery, formerly the stairwell. The ceiling above the gallery is coved and features a large rectangular lantern with plaster panels decorated with animal, rose, and fleur-de-lys motifs; the lantern has diamond-shaped panes to the vertical sides and a hipped glass roof. A similar lantern is present in the front-right range, but with plain panels. The rear storage wing has a lean-to roof with matchboarded ceilings and walls.

Historically, this was the publishing house of Croydon, responsible for the first Teignmouth guide in 1817. The facade is noted as being reminiscent of the style adopted by many "cottage ornee" buildings found in the countryside around Teignmouth and Shaldon.