Construction workers from A. J. Beal Business prepare to move an example of a 15th century Tudor house, one of the oldest surviving examples in Devon. For centuries the Merchant House stood on the corner of Frog Street and Edmund Street but proposals for a new road system in the 1950s led to a local campaign to save the timber-framed property. The Council donated £10,000 to the scheme. The House took six days to move 220 feet or 67 metres and was a major news story around the world.