Two Entrance Lodges To John Heathcoat's Lace Factory

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TIVERTON

SS9512 LEAT STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/209 Two entrance lodges to John 12/02/52 Heathcoat's Lace Factory

GV II

Pair of lodges to the Heathcoat lace factory (demolished). c1820s. Flemish bond brick; natural slate roofs, gabled at ends. Left-hand lodge preserves a brick stack with two old tapering pots. The lodges flank the entrance to the Heathcoat factory (rebuilt after a fire and not included). EXTERIOR: single-storey lodges have deep eaves on brackets, the gables treated as pediments on front and rear. The left-hand lodge has a clock in the pediment; the right-hand has a wooden roundel with a bust in relief of John Heathcoat.

Lodges have angle pilasters and platbands below the pediments.

Tall doorways on sides flanking road to factory. End walls have 12-pane hornless sash windows, 2 on the elevation facing the road and one on the rear. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: John Heathcoat took over a factory on the site in 1816, when be brought his manufactory from Loughborough to Tiverton. Heathcoat played a major role in the development of the West Exe area on the factory side of the River Loman. The lodges have group value with Heathcoat's factory school.





Listing NGR: SS9517412708

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1022 IOE Records taken by Hedley R Hooper; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project