9 And 10, Leat Street

TIVERTON

SS9512 LEAT STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/211 (West side) Nos.9 AND 10

GV II

Pair of terraced houses on the north side of the entrance to Heathcoat Square. Probably built in the 1860s or 1870s, similar in style to the St Paul Street houses of the late 1850s. MATERIALS: No.9 is of pinkish-yellow brick (the front rounded corner now painted); No.10 is rendered, with incised masonry markings. Rear wall to Heathcoat Square covered with roughcast. Cast-iron window sills on left return front of No.9. Slated roof, hipped at the back. Pinkish-yellow brick chimneys on part wall and at rear of No.9, with projecting courses at the top forming an entablature: 4 cylindrical spiked pots on each chimney. Old red brick chimney, heightened in later red brick and with spiked pots, to rear on the right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, No.10 with garret. No.9 has 3-window front to the entrance to Heathcoat Square and single window to Leat Street; both this corner and the one at the other end, adjoining the square, are rounded and recessed. No.10 is 2 windows wide with slightly off-centre doorway. No.9 has early (possibly original) wooden shop front on the front corner; flanking pilasters supporting entablature, display window on each side of corner shop, the left-hand window with 3 upright glazing bars. Double-doors to shop, the upper sections with 2-paned glazing. House door replaced in late C20, but deep reveals and soffit have wooden boards with incised Greek decoration; 3-paned fanlight. To left of door and at either end of upper storey, a window with 8-paned sashes; above the door a window with 6-paned sashes. No.10 has 3-panelled door, the 2 upper panels now glazed. 6-paned sash window to right of it. To left, and in upper storey both of this house and the Leat Street front of No.9, triple sash windows, the middle sashes of 6 panes, the other ones of 2 panes. Deeply-projecting moulded eaves cornice around both fronts. Rear wall of No.10 (facing Heathcoat Square) has some small-paned casement windows and a 2-light gabled dormer with moulded barge-boards, the lights of 2 panes each. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: these were Heathcoat-built houses, No.9 (along with No.2 Church Street (qv)) deliberately designed to provide a new entrance to Heathcoat Square at the rear. A pencilled alteration to the Heathcoat estate atlas of 1844 shows that a house was demolished for this purpose; the original entrance to the square was a little way further north in Leat Street. The small-paned wooden sash windows and casements of these simple houses are an important part of their design as is the door surround at No.9.

Listing NGR: SS9513012686