Description

SS 7607-7707
11/153
26.8.65

MORCHARD BISHOP
FORE STREET (north-east side)
Morchard Bishop
No. 7

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 6 and 8
Fore Street (q.v.) with end stack in left (north-west) party wall and secondary
service room to rear. 2 storeys. 2-window front of late C19 - early C20 casements
with glazing bars and C20 door to right.
Interior has chamfered cross beam and large rubble fireplace with plain chamfered
oak lintel and brick side oven. 2-bay roof carried on A-frame truss with pegged
lap-jointed collar and pegged mortice-and-tenon joint at apex. Party wall to south-
east (No 6) is a plastered frame made of roughly squared pine timbers of relatively
slender scantling and roof is continuous over No. 6 Fore Street. Cottage is one of
a row of 13 cottages which together form the longest continuous run of thatched-
roofed buildings in Devon and probably the longest run in England.

Listing NGR: SS7689907668

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554029

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014