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Brothers' fine food oasis.

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| March 19, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Western Daily Press)

Start as the first-time visitor starts, outside the finest - well, the only - mediaeval dwelling-house remaining in Plymouth.

Prysten House on Finewell Street is a magnificent building. Originally built by Plympton Priory in the 15th century, it boasts wondrous stonework and ogee windows, original timber rooves and a formerly galleried courtyard.

Despite the quiet bustle now within and the rushing and hushing of Plymouth city centre just a couple of hundred yards away, the whole building has that inimitable and immutable air of age-old peace which would remain in defiance of battles and orgies. This is a sanctuary.

The hall is limewashed and painted sparingly …

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