Park House and Park House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. House, cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Park House and Park House Cottage

WRENN ID
graven-cinder-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
House, cottage
Address
Park House and Park House Cottage, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6NX
OS grid reference
SS 768 076
Coordinates
50.85524, -3.75076
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park House and Park House Cottage are an early 19th-century house and adjoining cottage situated in Morchard Bishop. The main house is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 19th-century bricks and a thatched roof. The building is L-shaped, comprising a two-room main range facing south-east, with a rear block at a right angle behind the south-east end. Park House occupies the front wing and an adjoining room of the rear wing, while Park House Cottage occupies the remaining two rooms of the rear block.

The symmetrical front façade of Park House features three windows, with 19th-century three-light horizontal sliding sash windows on the first floor, retaining some original crown glass. Ground-floor windows have been replaced with 20th-century casements without glazing bars. A central, wide 19th-century six-panel door is set within a moulded doorcase with a flat hood supported by shaped timber brackets. The front wall bows slightly forward. The roof is hipped at each end and has deep eaves to the front, covered with slate.

The front of Park House has a similar first-floor sash window and a ground-floor casement. Park House Cottage has late 19th- and early 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The interior of Park House retains some early 19th-century joinery and plasterwork. The roofs were not inspected. The building was formerly known as Raymonts Bakery.

Local climate

Park House and Park House Cottage 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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