Thistle Cottage

Thistle Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-east side of Fore Street, Morchard Bishop, situated between numbers 9 and 11. The cottage is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble stack topped with 19th and 20th-century brick. It has a thatched roof. The cottage originally had a two-room plan, with the larger right-hand (south-eastern) room sharing an end stack with the adjacent cottage at number 9. The front elevation is nearly symmetrical and features a late 19th and early 20th-century two-window arrangement of casement windows with glazing bars. There is a nearly central 19th-century six-panel door, protected by a 20th-century gabled porch with a thatched roof, supported on plain timber posts. Inside, the cottage has plain carpentry details, including a chamfered crossbeam in the main room, and a stone rubble fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel and brick oven to the right. The roof was not inspected during the listing process. Thistle Cottage is part of a row of 13 cottages, collectively forming the longest continuous run of thatched buildings in Devon, and likely the longest in England.