CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR

CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR, 4, ST PETER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1384948
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR
Statutory Address:: CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR, 4, ST PETER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1384948
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR
Statutory Address 1:: CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR, 4, ST PETER STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHILCOT SCHOOL INCLUDING NUMBER 4 AT REAR, 4, ST PETER STREET

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County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Tiverton
National Grid Reference:: SS 95378 12585

Details

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/306 (West side) 12/02/52 Chilcot School, including No.4 at rear (Formerly Listed as: ST PETER STREET Chilcot School and No.4)

GV II*

Includes: No.4 ST PETER STREET Tiverton. Council meeting room and house, formerly school and headmaster's house. Dated 1611; minor additions at rear. MATERIALS: squared purplish stone rubble with most details in dressed limestone, possibly from Beer; the front doorway appears to be of a local volcanic stone, refaced with cement. Storehouse rendered. Slated roofs with stone parapets on the gable ends; storehouse roof of corrugated asbestos. C20 metal ventilator on centre of ridge. House has stone chimney (probably C19) at front end and red brick chimney at rear. PLAN: school consists of an open hall along the street frontage with a through-passage at the left-hand end; gallery above the passage. Headmaster's house lies behind, at right to the right-hand end. Opposite it, to the left of the courtyard, is a 2-storey building (probably a C19 addition) with a storehouse adjoining. EXTERIOR: school single-storey. Front has 4 mullioned and transomed windows of 4 lights each with king mullions; ogee-moulded mullions, continued hoodmoulds. At left-hand end is a round-arched doorway with moulded jambs, imposts and archivolt; keystone projects, and appears originally to have had a pendant. Hoodmould with lozenge terminals. Studded plank door, much repaired with round-arched wicket-gate cut into it. Above the door is a square moulded plaque with inscription: Robert Comin als Chilcot borne in this towne founded this free English Schoole and indowd it with maintenance for ever anno dni. 1611. Above the plaque is a 2-light mullioned gallery window with continued hoodmould. Projecting plinth with chamfered coping of volcanic stone. Moulded corbel table under the eaves. Rear wall has 2 windows to left, matching those at the front. Rear doorway to passage has Tudor arch with straight hoodmould; masonry encased in cement. Rear extension, forming in the ground storey a lobby to the rear courtyard, has a plain segmental stone arch and a studded plank door. Headmaster's house is 2-storey with a 3-window front facing the courtyard. Centre doorway concealed by C19 or C20 gabled porch. Ogee-moulded, stone-mullioned windows; those in ground storey are of 4 lights with hoodmoulds and relieving arches, those above are of 3 lights at either end and 2 lights in the middle. Rear gable wall (prominent in the view from Exe Bridge) has 2 stone-mullioned windows in each storey. Those in ground storey have 3 lights to left and 2 to right; those in second storey have 2 lights, the left light of the iron casements with small oblong leaded panes. INTERIOR: through-passage divided from schoolroom by a stone-rubble wall containing a Tudor-arched limestone doorway with ovolo and ogee mouldings, carved spandrels and large pyramid-like stops; studded plank double doors with moulded ribs. Schoolroom plain. In rear wall to right a segmental-headed fireplace with double-ogee moulding. barrel-vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs having carved bosses at the intersections. Gallery woodwork is probably entirely of 1907; a plaque records that in that year the school was incorporated into a gymnasium. Interior of house not inspected. HISTORY: Robert Chilcot was the brother-in-law of George Slee (qv The Great House of St George, St Peter's Street), another Tiverton wool merchant and the nephew of Peter Blundell (qv Old Blundells' School), a wool merchant with Tiverton links. An outstanding example of a school of this period, Tiverton also boasting Blundell's School (qv).

Listing NGR: SS9537812585

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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.