5, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
5, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-bracket-heron
- 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
- 5, Fore Street, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6NX
- OS grid reference
- SS 769 076
- Coordinates
- 50.85528, -3.75019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located on the north-east side of Fore Street in Morchard Bishop, situated between numbers 4 and 6. It is built with plastered cob walls on rubble footings, featuring a rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage originally had a 2-room plan, with a central entrance facing south-west and a stack serving the larger left-hand (north-western) room. The front elevation has a symmetrical arrangement of two windows, which are late 19th or early 20th-century 3-light casements with glazing bars, a central door. The interior retains plain carpentry details. This cottage is part of a row of thatched buildings in Devon and is thought to be the longest continuous run of thatched buildings in England.
Local climate
5, Fore Street 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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