Two Entrance Lodges To John Heathcoats Lace Factory

The two entrance lodges to John Heathcoat's Lace Factory, built around the 1820s, are located on Leat Street in Tiverton. Constructed of Flemish bond brick with natural slate roofs that are gabled at the ends, the left-hand lodge features a brick stack with two old tapering pots. These single-storey lodges flank the entrance to the Heathcoat factory, which was rebuilt after a fire and is not included in this listing.

The exterior of the lodges showcases deep eaves supported by brackets, with the gables designed as pediments on both the front and rear. The left-hand lodge has a clock set in the pediment, while the right-hand lodge displays a wooden roundel featuring a bust in relief of John Heathcoat. Each lodge is adorned with angle pilasters and platbands beneath the pediments. There are tall doorways on the sides facing the road to the factory, and the end walls have 12-pane hornless sash windows, with two on the road-facing elevation and one on the rear.

The interior of the lodges has not been inspected. Historically, John Heathcoat took over a factory on this site in 1816, relocating his manufactory from Loughborough to Tiverton, where he significantly contributed to the development of the West Exe area on the factory side of the River Loman. The lodges hold group value with Heathcoat's factory school.