Description

MORCHARD BISHOP FORE STREET (north-east side)
SS 7607 - 7707
Morchard Bishop
11/155
- No. 10, Thistle Cottage
26.8.65
GV
II

Cottage. C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stack topped with C19 and
C20 brick; thatched roof. 2 room plan cottage facing south-west set between Nos 9
and 11 Fore Street (q.v.). Larger right hand (south-eastern) room has end stack in
party wall and shared by adjoining cottage (No 9). 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical
2-window front of late C19 early C20 casements with glazing bars. Nearly central
C19 6-panel door with C20 gabled and thatch-roofed porch on plain timber posts.
Interior has plain carpentry detail including a plain chamfered crossbeam to main
room and stone rubble fireplace with chamfered oak lintel and brick oven to right.
Roof not inspected. 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: SS7689007680

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542532

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)