6, Fore Street

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