The plan of this timber-framed L-shaped building, incorporating an open hall, is unique in York.
Dating from 1396, it is the only remaining building of four, built following the granting of a license to erect a handful of dwellings in the churchyard of St Peter-in-the-Willow. The church was located roughly 90 yards east and is now demolished. The dwellings perhaps functioned as a vicarage for the church.
It was extended in the c. 16th and c. 17th, and heavily restored in the 1930s and 1960s.
The name is derived from Dr John Bowes Morrell, one of the founders of the York Civic Trust, who purchased the building in the 1960s.
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