St Peters Church House

TIVERTON

SS9512 CASTLE STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/148 (East side) 12/02/52 No.17 St Peter's Church House (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (East side) No.17 (Church House))

GV II

School with headmaster's house to left, now a church house and private house to left. 1842, designed by the architect GA Boyce. Mass wall construction with roughcast rendering and stone rubble plinth. Roof of natural slate. No sign of the position of any chimney stacks remaining from the front elevation. PLAN: 3 rooms wide 2 rooms deep on either side of central room which is a large hall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic rooms. Symmetrical 3 bay 5-window front. Central bay broken forward and gabled to front. This projecting central bay has banded cornice at first-floor level and at second. Entrance doors to right of first bay and to left of the third are both plank and cover strip with studding with centre planks glazed half way up; doorways have Tudor-arched heads and dripstones with carved label stops. First and third bays have C20 small-pane iron casement windows with middle hung lights, except for an original stone tripartite mullioned window with margin panes and geometric glazing bars at ground floor end right - this window has a dripmould. Modern roof lights. INTERIOR: only partially inspected. Timber moulded Tudor arch doorway from headmaster's house into ground floor school room. School room is entered on the other side via a side passage behind the entrance door in the third bay. Also a 3-light window in this passage which looks into the school room. First floor schoolroom has a canted ceiling with moulded beams and carved bosses. Moulded roof timbers are supported on carved corbels. HISTORY: on the wall of the passage inside the building is a wooden plaque commemorating the school's erection in 1842 for the Tiverton Bluecoat Schools. In 1878 the school became the middle schools foundation and the boys school was held there until 1910. In 1911 the building was bought for Parish purposes "at a cost (including adaptation) of »1,800".

Listing NGR: SS9555412852