Description

SS 7607-7707
11/152
26.8.65

MORCHARD BISHOP
FORE STREET (north-east side)
No. 6

GV
II

Cottage. C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stack topped with C20
brick; thatched roof. 1 room plan cottage facing south-west set between Nos 5 and 7
Fore Street (q.v.) with rear lateral stack and secondary service room under lean-to
roof. 2 storeys. 1-window front with central first floor late C19 early C20
casement with glazing bars to first floor and C19 3-light casement with slender
glazing bars and small rectangular panes of glass on ground floor left of 4-panel
door with overlight.
Interior has plain, square-sectioned axial beam and large rubble fireplace with
chamfered oak lintel and brick side oven. Stairs to left of fireplace. 2 bay roof
carried on A-frame truss with pegged lap-jointed collar and pegged mortice-and-tenon
joint at apex. Party wall to left (7 Fore Street q.v.) is plastered frame made of
roughly squared pine timbers of relatively slender scantling and roof continuous
over 7 Fore Street. Cottage is one of a row of 13 cottages which together form the
longest continuous run of thatch-roofed buildings in Devon, and probably the longest
run in England.

Listing NGR: SS7690207663

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542528

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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