9 Southgate Street
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9 Southgate Street
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 16 Mar 2019
Built in 1664-5 (despite a date of 1650 carved into a first floor fireplace) for Thomas Yate, an apothecary. In the late 18th Century it was owned by James Lee, a tobacconist and bluemaker (i.e. maker of blue dye for whitening clothes) who painted the façade blue to advertise his trade. Other subsequent occupants were James Taylor, a grocer and brandy merchant, in the 19th Century and a Mar Clark, tea merchant, around the turn of the 19th/20th Century. It is perhaps fitting therefore that the building is currently occupied by the coffee chain Costa. Grade I listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271748.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.865011
Longitude
-2.246196