7, Fore Street

This is an 18th-century cottage located on Fore Street in Morchard Bishop. It is built with plastered cob walls on rubble footings, with a rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage has a single-room plan, facing south-west, and is situated between numbers 6 and 8 Fore Street. A secondary service room was added to the rear.

The front of the building has two windows, featuring late 19th- to early 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars, and a 20th-century door on the right.

Inside, the cottage features chamfered cross beams and a large rubble fireplace with a plain chamfered oak lintel and a brick side oven. The roof is a 2-bay design with an A-frame truss, incorporating pegged lap-jointed collars and pegged mortice-and-tenon joints at the apex. The party wall shared with number 6 Fore Street is a plastered frame constructed from roughly squared pine timbers. This wall and the roof are continuous with number 6 Fore Street.

The cottage is part of a row of thirteen cottages that form the longest continuous run of thatched-roofed buildings in Devon, and likely the longest such run in England.