6, FORE STREET
6, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250484
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/00147/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250484
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, FORE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 6, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morchard Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7690207663
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432867
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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