The shop in Rye is now open!

As it is a Grade II listed building, plans have been drawn up to submit for Listed Building consent to make major (but sympathetic) changes to the rest of the building.

If you are interested in the progress of this work, there will be pictures here of the work as it progresses. The pictures here show the shop now that it is open, and a larger version if you click each one.

There are several ranges of new gifts on sale in the shop, as well as the jewellery, and we hope to put these into the Byzantium Online shop as soon as we are able.

The archaeologist who is working on the Rye Project has said that a census was taken not very long after the building was completed, somewhere in the 1580's (He said it was not possible to date with complete accuracy). The building next door is a lightly less old school building, commissioned by Thomas Peacocke. As the census was taken door to door, there are two names for possible owners of our building when it was built. If the researchers can put another definite name to an address in Rye at that time, they will know in which direction the census took place, and will be able to match names to all the buildings that existed at the time; this in turn will give a lot of information about the uses to which the buildings were put.

More pictures Various views of and from 14 High Street Rye

Pictures of the building before we bought it