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The Tavern In The Port was situated on Bridge Street. This grade-II listed pub was previously known as The Royal Mail and closed in 2014.
Source: Peter Rogers
Listed building details:
Public House. Early C17, remodelled externally in mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimney on rear wall (visible from churchyard). 3 storeys. 3-window main front to Church Walk with raised band above ground storey. All windows in ground storey boarded up. At right-hand end C19 double doors with 2 moulded panels to each leaf. Box-framed sash-windows in upper storeys, the outer second-storey sashes with margin-panes. No openings in Bridge Street front, but raised band continues round. Interior not inspected, but description by WH Rogers refers toearly C17 broad-rib ceiling divided by inserted partitions: 'on the walls of a bedroom are the arms of Marwood of Marwood, a chevron between 3 goats heads caboshed, horned or'. (Rogers W H: Notes on Bideford: P.76).
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