This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
MORCHARD BISHOP FORE STREET (south-west side) SS 7607 - 7707 Morchard Bishop 11/165 - Park Villa and Park House GV II
2 cottages, formerly single house. C17, most rebuilt in C19. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatched roof. Pair of adjoining cottages facing north-east. Park Villa to the right (north-west) is a 2 room plan building with axial stack and through-passage on right end. Park House is a 2-room crosswing to the left (south-east) with outside lateral stack. Both 2- storeys. Overall irregular 4-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Park Villa has C19 6-panel front door and C20 gabled and slate roof porch. C20 French window door to Park House. Passage has no doorways either end. Roof is gable ended to right and hipped to Park House.
Interiors show plain carpentry detail except Park House which has a large mid C17 stone rubble fireplace with its oak lintel soffit-chamfered and bar runout stops.
Roofs not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7688607590
This is part of the Series: IOE01/2255 IOE Records taken by Michael Woodhead; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Michael Woodhead. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Woodhead, Michael
Rights Holder: Woodhead, Michael
Cob, Plaster, Rubble, Thatch, Tudor House, Elizabethan Monument (By Form), Stuart Domestic, Jacobean Dwelling
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