Description

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST PAUL'S SQUARE, Tiverton
848-1/6/271 (South side)
14/12/72 School, adjacent to No.1
(Formerly Listed as:
ST PAUL'S SQUARE
(South side)
School and No.1)

GV II

School, c1860. On the north side, St Paul's Square, the school
is either designed to give the appearance of a terrace of
houses or has been expanded into a terrace of middle class
houses. Architect unknown to date. According to Brayshay the
school was built for Caroline Brewin, the daughter of John
Heathcoat, as part of a group of consistently designed
buildings, including St Paul's Street and centred on St Paul's
Church, built on land donated by Heathcoat and funded from
rentals from the houses.
MATERIALS: yellow Flemish bond brick to the show elevations;
stone rubble rear and end walls with brick dressings, south
end wall roughcast; slate roofs; stacks with brick shafts and
crowned chimney pots; cast-iron rainwater goods; cast-iron
window sills, similar to those found on Heathcoat's industrial
housing.
STYLE: Georgian.
PLAN: the school is on a corner site between the south side of
St Paul's Square and Brewing Road. The arrangement of windows
suggests that there is a hall on the first floor at the east
end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 5-window front to Brewing Road, gabled to
the front at the right end, with deep verges on brackets. The
ground floor has three 16-pane hornless timber sashes and two
roundheaded doorways which are domesticated in manner with
rusticated quoins Greek key mouldings on the reveals and
simple fanlights with spoke glazing bars. 4-panel front doors
have the lower panels flush. Triple first-floor window in
gable has a round-headed central sash with margin panes
flanked by two 4 over 4-pane sashes.
The St Paul's Square elevation is 10 bays arranged as the
facades of 4 houses with the downpipes of the rainwater goods
sunk in chases in the walls. 10 first-floor 16-pane timber
hornless sashes. 4 doorways, matching those on the east end,
all with disused panelled doors.
The rear elevation retains sash windows.
INTERIOR: partially inspected. Original joinery survives.
(Southern History: Brayshay M: 'Heathcoat's Industrial Housing
in Tiverton, Devon': 1991-: 82-104).

Listing NGR: SS9513312491

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664714

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)