NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES

NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES, 1-14, HEATHCOAT SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384843
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES, 1-14, HEATHCOAT SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384843
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES, 1-14, HEATHCOAT SQUARE

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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-14 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS AT EAST AND WEST ENDS OF SQUARE AND GARDEN GATES, 1-14, HEATHCOAT SQUARE

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County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Tiverton
National Grid Reference:: SS 95088 12688

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TIVERTON

SS9512 HEATHCOAT SQUARE, Tiverton 848-1/6/205 Nos.1-14 (Consecutive) including boundary walls, railings at east & west ends of square & garden gates

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Two terraces, each of 7 working class or artisans' houses, on the north and south sides of the square, the east and west ends of the latter being enclosed by low boundary walls. c1820s-44. The north range was badly damaged by fire in 1919, but has been restored. MATERIALS: rendered, solid walls; north range appears to have been of unrendered stone rubble at the time of the 1919 fire. Front wall of this range now has a series of iron tie bars in the third storey. Slated roofs. No chimneys. PLAN: double-fronted, almost certainly double-depth. The third storeys are said to have been separately occupied originally, and in 1919 that of the north range was reached by an external staircase at the west end. Access on the east is by a short road opening out of Leat Street, and on the east by an alley entered from an archway under No.7 John Street (qv). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 2-window fronts with centre doorways. Nos 1-7 (on the south side) have 4-panelled doors, the upper panels raised and fielded with ovolo moulded surrounds, the lower ones flush. Nos 8-14 have C20 flush wooden doors, except for Nos 12 & 13 which have original doors with 4 flush panels and cast-iron knockers. Most of the doorways have flat arches, but the arches at Nos 9, 12, 13 & 14 are segmental. The windows in both ranges have box-framed sashes, the frames almost flush with the rendering; sashes are 2-paned with a single upright glazing bar. All the windows have cast-iron sills. Fixed to the wall at No.1, at the left end of the second storey, is a shaped cast-iron plaque inscribed HEATHCOAT SQUARE. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the boundary wall at the east end is of red brick, the section south of the path with a coping of chamfered red tiles, that to the north with a curved cast-iron coping. Upon the latter stands a C19 iron railing with moulded finials to the standards. The walls have been repaired with C20 brick in several places. The west boundary wall is of stone rubble the northern section with a tiled coping like that at the east end, but ramped up against the face of the house on the north. The southern section has a rendered, stone rubble coping. The front boundaries of the gardens now have C20 wire fences with wooden gate-pots, but the patterned iron gates seem to be C19; the gate at No.14 has an old cast-iron number plate attached to it. HISTORY: the square is shown as John Heathcoat's property in his estate atlas of 1844, when it was called Quick's Court (a name still retained on the 25-inch OS Map of 1888). The layout was much as now, except that there were 14 houses on each side, together with 2 more set back at the east end of the north side; a small building stood against the western boundary wall. There was no entrance at the west end (since John Street had not yet been laid out), and access from Leat Street was apparently a little further north; an addition to the map shows that the present entrance, involving the demolition of a house, was cut through by Heathcoat. The number of houses was reduced to its present total of 14 somewhere between the 1851 and 1861 censuses; whether the buildings were remodelled or rebuilt at this period is unknown. The returns of 1841-1881 show a high proportion of lace workers among the occupants, but there were a few shoemakers and other craftsmen who cannot have been employed in Heathcoat's factory. Michael Laithwaite argues that there is no firm evidence of the square's existence before 1841, except for entries of `14 Cottages in the Square' in the Land Tax Assessment of 1830 and 1832, when John Heathcoat was given as the owner. One Thomas Quick (d.1831) a woollen manufacturer with a factory near Heathcoat's, may have been renting them from him as far back as the 1820s. Brayshay argues that the square may be as early as 1816, used to accommodate Heathcoat's Loughborough workers, and refers to rentals from the 1820s in the Knighsthayes Estate Office (Heathcoat Rent Book, 1823-34) He also suggests that the top storey was used for looms or workshops (p.85) the upper storeys converted to extra accommodation, accessible by means of an external staircase, but gives no reference for the source of this. According to Brayshay there were 11 dwellings on each side by the 1820s and by the 1860s there was a lean-to bakery 'at the end of the row' (p.85). A very significant survival of industrial housing of this type, especially in a regional context and also a national. (Southern History: Brayshay M: Heathcoat's Industrial Housing in Tiverton: 1991-: PP.82-104).

Listing NGR: SS9508812688

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Sources

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Brayshay, M, 'Southern History' in Heathcoat's Industrial Housing in Tiverton, (1991), 82-104

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.