9 And 10, St Andrew Street

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST ANDREW STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/252 (West side) 27/01/99 Nos.9 AND 10

GV II

House, later public house, empty at time of inspection; apparently of a single building originally. Probably C18, remodelled mid C19. MATERIALS: painted stone ashlar front. Left return of stone rubble with dressings of freestone and red brick. Rear wall of squared stone rubble, except for red brick right (north) side wall to rear wing. Slated roofs. Squared stone rubble chimneys, with raised stone bands at the top, on side walls and ridge of main range, those to left rendered. Red brick chimney on rear gable of wing. PLAN: complex. Double-depth range on right-hand side of frontage, apparently comprising No.9 and part of No.10. L-shaped section on left, with long rear wing extending down Ham Place. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with garret and basement. 8-window front, the 2 right-hand windows set in what appears from the street to be a tall gabled cross-wing. Latter has doorway with shallow pointed arch and plank door to left; small 3-paned window above arch. To right is a 3-light flat headed window with Gothic stone columns as mullions; lights contain 4-paned sashes. Chamfered string course above ground storey. In second storey 2 windows with shouldered heads; 6-paned sashes with margin panes. In gable, which has a stone coping with kneelers and trefoiled finial, a window with shallow pointed arch; 2 light wood casement with 2 panes per light. Left-hand section (all openings boarded up) is divided into 3 bays by pilaster-strips, the strip between the 2 right-hand bays stopping short above a doorway (probably of later date) with patterned architrave and cornice. There is a further, plain doorway at left-hand end. Upper storey windows, 2 per bay, have continued sills. Left return to Ham Place has in the ground and basement storeys (where the site slopes sharply downhill) mostly segmental headed windows with stone surrounds and keystones; one basement window has been converted from a doorway. Other windows have jambs and segmental arches of red brick. All windows are boarded up. Rear wall has windows with stone surrounds like those to Ham Place; some are boarded up, but 2 have exposed 8-paned sashes. There is a dormer gable with plain bargeboards and a pair of 2-light wood casements, the lights of 2 or 3 panes each. INTERIOR: No.10 has several simple mid C19 chimneypieces, including one with an ornate cast-iron grate. Boarded windows are mostly small-paned sashes on the inside. No.9 not inspected. HISTORY: in 1881 (as far as can be judged from the census return) the building was the Star Inn, run by Robert Hurley. Prominent situation in the street, opposite the churchyard to Church of St George (qv).

Listing NGR: SS9540712426