East Devon College Hairdressing And Beauty Centre

This is a school building, dating from 1847, originally serving as an infant school and now the East Devon College Hairdressing and Beauty Centre. It is located on Bampton Street, Tiverton. The building is constructed of red brick with a plinth of squared stone blocks, with the right rear wing rendered. The roof is slate-covered.

The building consists of a long front range with rooms flanking a central through-passage, and long rear wings to the right and a shorter wing to the left. The exterior is two storeys with six windows in the ground floor and four above, arranged around a central doorway. A rendered band separates the floors. The doorway has a rendered surround and a flat wooden hood supported on shaped brackets. The ground floor windows are 6-paned sashes with horns while the upper floor windows are 2-light casements with intersecting 'Tudor' glazing bars. Two windows in the ground floor appear to be replacements for former doorways. Hoodmoulds with wooden corbels feature above the original windows either side of the central doorway, a detail found on nearby houses built around 1846. Above the central doorway is a segmental-headed plaque inscribed "BREWIN SCHOOL PRESENTED WITH ENDOWMENT TO THE TIVERTON SCHOOL BOARD A.D. 1877."

The rear wings have tall mullioned-and-transomed windows on their inner faces; the front window of the right wing has intersecting glazing bars, while some of these bars are retained in the rear window. A similar upper-storey window is present in the left rear wing. The building has red brick chimneys at each end of the ridge, with one slightly off-centre to the right. The right-hand chimney has an entablature formed by projecting brick courses, has been heightened in later red brick, and the left-hand chimney has been reduced in height. One chimney features a pot with panelled sides.

The interior has not been inspected. Originally built and supported by Ambrose Brewin, the school was attended by approximately 100 children in 1850. Brewin's widow, Caroline, transferred the school and another in Chapel Street to the School Board in 1877, along with an endowment of £160 per annum for their maintenance.