Hillside is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. A Georgian Cottage.

Hillside

WRENN ID
moated-newel-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1965
Type
Cottage
Address
Hillside, 1, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop
OS grid reference
SS 769 076
Coordinates
50.85502, -3.74984
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hillside is a cottage dating from the 18th century, located on the north-east side of Fore Street in Morchard Bishop. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble stack topped by 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces south-west, featuring an end stack that serves the larger room on the right (southeastern side). There are service outshots at the rear. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular two-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The door is slightly left of centre and is accompanied by a 20th-century gabled porch. The roof is gable-ended, and the interior displays plain carpentry detail. This cottage is part of a row of 13, which forms the longest continuous run of thatch-roofed buildings in Devon and likely the longest in England.

Local climate

Hillside receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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