3, Fore Street

This is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-east side of Fore Street in Morchard Bishop. It is situated between numbers 2 and 4 Fore Street. The cottage is constructed with plastered cob walls on rubble footings and has rubble chimney stacks with 20th-century brick tops. It is covered by a thatched roof. Originally a 2-room plan cottage, it faces south-west with a central entrance. The front originally featured a symmetrical arrangement of three 19th-century windows with 16 panes each. These windows have been replaced with a 20th-century French window on the ground floor to the left, and the central doorway now has a 20th-century glazed door protected by a zinc-roofed, single-sloped hood on plain posts. The interior consists of plain carpentry details. The cottage is slightly larger than its neighbors. It is part of a group of 13 cottages forming the longest continuous row of thatched buildings in Devon, and possibly in England.