Thurlby Cottage

Thurlby Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, originally two cottages, located on the north-east side of Fore Street, Morchard Bishop. It is now a two-room cottage facing south-west, situated between numbers 7 and 10 Fore Street. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick. The roof is thatched. A rear lateral stack serves the right (south-east) room, and an end stack is in the left (north-western) party wall, shared with the adjoining cottage at number 10. The cottage is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front. It features a mix of 19th and 20th-century casement windows, with the first floor lacking glazing bars. A 19th-century three-light casement window on the ground floor right has slender glazing bars and small rectangular panes, some of which retain old glass. A 20th-century gabled porch with a thatched roof covers the central doorway. The interior has plain carpentry detail. The cottage was likely originally two one-room cottages and was part of a row of 13 cottages, forming one of the longest continuous runs of thatched buildings in Devon, and probably the longest run in England.