Ridge Cottage

Date:: 27 Oct 1999

Location:: Ridge Cottage, Church Street, Morchard Bishop, Mid Devon, Devon, EX17 6PJ

Reference:: IOE01/00150/10

Type:: Photograph (Digital)

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Description

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

MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH STREET (south side) SS 7607 - 7707 Morchard Bishop 11/141 - Ridge Cottage GV II

House, originally a row of 3 cottages, sometime stables and garage. Early C16, converted to stables and garage in early C20 and converted to single house in mid C20. Partly plastered cob on rubble footings; partly plastered rubble; rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; slate roof. 3 room plan house facing north, originally comprising 3 single cell houses. End stacks to outer room and centre room has axial stack to right (west). 2 storeys. Irregular 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars and including, first floor left, an early C16 oak 2- light trefoil-headed window in situ. First floor left is a C20 gable-roofed dormer and in centre is large early C20 loading hatch with gabled roof. Roof is gable- ended to left and hipped to right. Photographs of the front stripped of render shows original arrangement of 2-window fronts to left (east) and centre with outer doors. Butt join right of centre shows former right end cottage is rubble-built and later than other 2, and had a 1-window front with door at right end. Some blockings show internally. Roof hipped to right, gable-ended to left, C20 door and C20 glass- sided conservatory to rear.

Interior was much altered in early C20 when converted to stables and garage. Only 1 original beam survives. It is in the middle room; chamfered with diagonal cut stops. End stacks of dressed volcanic stone with plain oak lintels central fireplace is blocked. Early C16 roof structure survives including 3 side-pegged jointed crucks.

Built on glebe land and very close to the church these were probably almshouses.

Left end is said to have once extended further with a first floor schoolroom over the gateway into the churchyard.

Listing NGR: SS7726207524

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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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Photographer: Woodhead, Michael

Rights Holder: Woodhead, Michael

Keywords

Plaster, Rubble, Slate, Cob, Medieval Cruck House, Tudor Monument (By Form), Timber Framed House, Timber Framed Building, House, Domestic, Dwelling, Row, Multiple Dwelling, Row House, Garage, Transport, Road Transport Site, Stable, Agriculture And Subsistence, Animal Shed, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, School, Education, Almshouse, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Health And Welfare, Residential Building