Description

CREDITON

SS834000 EAST STREET
672-1/6/37 (South side)
Haywards Old School and the Drama
Centre

GV II

School, incorporating 2 teachers' houses, now used as Youth
and Drama Centres. 1859 by John Hayward,architect,of Exeter,
with additions of 1874, 1890 & 1894 (Bovett) in a matching
style. Snecked local volcanic trap with Ham Hill dressings;
asbestos slate roof replacing natural slate; brick and stone
stacks. Gothic Revival style.
Plan: Double courtyard plan, including two teachers' houses to
front block, roofed parallel to the road.
Exterior: Houses single storey and attic; classroom blocks
single storey. Symmetrical 1:3:3:1-bay front, the houses in
the centre, each with 2 gabled dormers, the gable ends of the
classrooms to left and right. Axial brick stacks with shafts
with brick bands. Deep eaves with bargeboards decorated with
various designs of blind tracery with apex pendants and
wrought iron finials. Each house has a central 2-centred
arched chamfered stone doorway with a hoodmould with label
stops, original ledged and braced boarded doors with
ornamental strap hinges, flanked by 3-light stone
hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and label
stops. Similar 2-light dormer windows. The gable ends of the
classrooms each have large 4-light hollow-chamfered stone
mullioned windows with high transoms, the right hand classroom
has a C20 doorway with a boarded door inserted to the left. At
the left end of the range a probably secondary 3-bay classroom
block roofed parallel to the road, with an end stack and 3
2-light mullion-and-transom windows. The left return of the
left classroom wing has a large shouldered lateral stack with
set-offs and 4 3-light hollow-chamfered mullion and transomed
windows. C20 door added to the right. The matching right hand
classroom wing probably similar but is partly concealed. The
remainder of the building is treated in the same style with
mullion-and-transom windows and large lateral stacks.
Interior: Not inspected but may retain original open classroom
roofs and other features.
The school was built with money from the early C17 charity of
Sir John Hayward, a Rochester merchant, the charity
administered by Buller of Downes. Bovett suggests that the
former combined English and Blue Schools, which had been sited
at Penton since 1814, were transferred to this building in
1859. A plaque records that Ernest Bevin was a pupil at the
school between 1890 and 1892.
(Bovett, Robert: Historical Notes on Devon Schools: Devon
County Council: P81-82).

Listing NGR: SS8370500097

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503506

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