4, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
4, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-spandrel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1965
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6NX
- OS grid reference
- SS 769 076
- Coordinates
- 50.8552, -3.75011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-east side of Fore Street, Morchard Bishop, situated between numbers 3 and 5. It is one of a row of 13 cottages, forming a long, continuous stretch of thatched buildings which is believed to be the longest in Devon and possibly in England. The cottage is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. It has a two-room plan, with a central entrance facing south-west. The north-western room is served by an end stack. The front has a symmetrical arrangement of two windows, featuring late 19th or early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. A central doorway has a late 19th or early 20th-century plank door and a 20th-century monopitch, felt-roofed porch on plain posts. The interior displays plain carpentry detail.
Local climate
4, Fore Street receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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