Old Porch House
OLD PORCH HOUSE, CROWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175354
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Porch House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD PORCH HOUSE, CROWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175354
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Porch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD PORCH HOUSE, CROWN LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD PORCH HOUSE, CROWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cressage
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5897904047
Details
SJ 50 SE
4/32
CRESSAGE C.P.
CROWN LANE
(west side)
Old Porch House
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16, north front re-faced mid-C18, with
later additions and alterations. Timber framed on rendered plinth
with plaster infill (roughcast brick north front), plain tile roofs.
Originally an L-plan; hall of 3 framed bays with 2-bay cross-wing
projecting to west, the north side of which was re-built in brick in
C18; late C19 gabled brick addition and low flat-roofed late C20
extension in angle between. 2 storeys and attics; framing: much
renewed in late C20, three irregular square and rectangular panels
above girding beam with close-set vertical posts below, long and
short straight tension braces; open gabled 2-storey porch (probably
mid-C17) on east side of hall range also has close-set vertical posts
and a jettied gable on carved corner brackets, splat balusters to
sides; 3-bay north front has late C20 glazing bar sashes replacing
earlier sash windows, those to ground floor in canted bays, linked
by a verandah with a central late C20 French window below; gabled
dormers in roof slope to left and right, dentilled eaves cornice;
red brick ridge stack to hall range with twin diagonal shafts and
moulded capping, prominent external stack to right gable end of north
front. Salop Fire Insurance plate numbered 14076 over door in C17
porch. Interior: inspection not possible at time of re-survey (1985)
but likely to be of interest.
Listing NGR: SJ5897904047
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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