Two Entrance Lodges to John Heathcoats Lace Factory
TWO ENTRANCE LODGES TO JOHN HEATHCOATS LACE FACTORY, LEAT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384848
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Two Entrance Lodges to John Heathcoats Lace Factory
- Statutory Address:
- TWO ENTRANCE LODGES TO JOHN HEATHCOATS LACE FACTORY, LEAT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384848
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Two Entrance Lodges to John Heathcoats Lace Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- TWO ENTRANCE LODGES TO JOHN HEATHCOATS LACE FACTORY, LEAT STREET
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TWO ENTRANCE LODGES TO JOHN HEATHCOATS LACE FACTORY, LEAT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95174 12708
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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