April Cottage and Park View is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
April Cottage and Park View
- WRENN ID
- rusted-crypt-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- April Cottage and Park View, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6NT
- OS grid reference
- SS 768 075
- Coordinates
- 50.85448, -3.75026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two cottages, formerly possibly three, dating probably from the 18th century. The cottages are constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a continuous thatched roof, covered with corrugated iron to the rear and over the hip. They face northeast; April Cottage is on the southeast side, and Park View on the northwest side.
April Cottage has a three-room plan with an end stack serving the left room and a rear lateral stack serving the right room. The right room may originally have been a separate single-room cottage. Park View has a two-room plan with a rear corner stack to the right room and a 20th-century flat-roofed single-story extension to the front of the left room. Both cottages are two storeys high.
April Cottage has an irregular three-window front featuring late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. It has a 19th-century six-fielded panel door with a 20th-century gabled and thatched porch incorporating late 19th-century cast iron decorative brackets. Park View has an irregular two-window front with 20th-century casements and glazing bars. The roof is gable-ended on the left (April Cottage) and hipped on the right (Park View).
Interiors reveal plain carpentry details where exposed. A rubble fireplace in the right room of April Cottage includes a Bideford clom oven with a door. The roof is inaccessible, but the feet of the principals in April Cottage suggest 18th-century A-frame trusses.
Local climate
April Cottage and Park View 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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