46-60, St Andrew Street

This is a terrace of eight houses located in St Andrew Street, Tiverton, built around 1819. The fronts are painted brick, with a stone rubble and red brick side wall on the left and a mixed stone rubble and red brick side wall on the right. The right gable end at number 52 is slate-hung. The rear walls are roughcast, and the roofs are slate, tarred at numbers 46 and 60. There are five red brick ridge chimneys; the originals have projecting brick courses at the top, forming entablatures, with the chimney between numbers 48 and 50 rebuilt in the 20th century and the chimney at number 60 reduced in height.

The terrace was designed as four mirrored pairs, each one window wide, with doorways adjacent to the party walls. Original four-panelled doors survive in some houses; numbers 50, 52, 56, and 60 have old cast-iron knockers. A later wooden glazed door is at number 46, the upper panels of the original doors are glazed at numbers 52 and 56, and a later wooden panelled door is at number 54. Porches conceal the original doors at numbers 48 and 58. Number 60 has a gabled, slated wooden hood supported by brackets, while numbers 46 and 50 have low-pitched gabled wooden hoods on shaped brackets at number 50. Number 52 has an open fronted porch. The windows are mostly 8-paned sashes in flush frames, with 2-paned sashes at numbers 48 and 56.

Deeds from December 1819 and April 1822, held in the Knightshayes Estate Office, Tiverton, relate to the sale of land and a newly built house on which the terrace stands. Matthew Blasdale and Isaac Warner are named in the deeds, and John Heathcoat, a lace manufacturer, appears as trustee in both, suggesting the men were his employees. Heathcoat purchased Warner's house in 1822 and by 1844 owned the entire terrace. The deeds describe frontages of 28 feet, equivalent to a pair of houses, but it is unlikely that Heathcoat rebuilt the terrace, as it was only 25 years old and lacks the cast-iron window sills characteristic of his other buildings in the town. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.