4 Fore Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MORCHARD BISHOP FORE STREET (north-eastside) SS 7607 - 7707 Morchard Bishop 11/150 No. 4 - 26.8.65 GV II

Cottage. C18. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stack topped with C19 brick; thatched roof. 2-room plan cottage with central entrance facing south-west set between Nos 3 and 5 Fore Street (q.v.). End stack serving left (north-western) room. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window front of late C19 - early C20 casements with glazing bars. Central doorway contains late C19 - early C20 plank door and C20 monopitch, felt-roofed porch on plain posts.

Interior has plain carpentry detail. Cottage is one of a row of 13 cottages which together form the longest continuous run of thatch-roofed buildings in Devon and probably and longest run in England.

Listing NGR: SS7691207648

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2255 IOE Records taken by Michael Woodhead; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Michael Woodhead. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project