Park Villa and Park House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. A C17 Cottage.
Park Villa and Park House
- WRENN ID
- tired-entrance-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Park Villa and Park House, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop
- OS grid reference
- SS 768 075
- Coordinates
- 50.85467, -3.75046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Villa and Park House are two cottages that were originally a single house, dating from the 17th century but mostly rebuilt in the 19th century. They are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick, and feature a thatched roof. The cottages face northeast, with Park Villa on the right (northwest) designed as a two-room plan building that includes an axial stack and a through-passage at the right end. Park House, on the left (southeast), is a two-room crosswing with an outside lateral stack. Both buildings are two stories high and present an overall irregular four-window front, featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. Park Villa has a 19th-century six-panel front door and a 20th-century gabled porch with a slate roof. Park House has a 20th-century French window door. The passage between the two cottages has no doorways at either end. The roof of Park Villa is gable-ended on the right, while Park House has a hipped roof. The interiors display plain carpentry details, except for Park House, which features a large mid-17th-century stone rubble fireplace with an oak lintel that has a soffit chamfer and bar run-out stops. The roofs were not inspected.
Local climate
Park Villa and Park House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
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