The Porch House
THE PORCH HOUSE, 5,6
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176569
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Porch House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PORCH HOUSE, 5,6
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- Date:
- 2005-06-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/14469/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176569
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Porch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PORCH HOUSE, 5,6
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:
- THE PORCH HOUSE, 5,6
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 33851 09614
Details
SJ 30 NW WESTBURY C.P. VENNINGTON
8/116 Nos. 5 and 6 (The Porch - House)
II
House, now divided. Dated 1664; C20 additions at rear. Timber framed on rubblestone plinth with painted brick nogging; plain tile roof. T- shaped baffle-entry plan of 2 framed bays with porch to south. One storey and attic. Framing: square panels (3 from sole-plate to wall- plate) with long straight tension braces; porch with some possibly later (C18) light framing. Central brick ridge stack; gabled eaves dormer to right with 2-light wooden casement. 2 ground-floor 3-light C19 wooden casements; central 2-storey gabled porch with one-light C20 attic casement, ground-floor 2-light C20 wooden casement, and C20 panelled door in right-hand return front; C20 gabled brick porch to left with cross-casement to front and 2-leaf boarded door in right-hand return front. Porch has exposed collar truss with V-struts, and painted date. Gable ends have exposed collar and tie-beam trusses with queen-struts and V-struts. Interior not inspected but likely to be of interest. V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p. 303; C. Ryan, The evolution of the peasant house in Shropshire. Medieval - C.1850. The Parish of Westbury, Unpublished thesis (October 1979), p. 161.
Listing NGR: SJ3385109614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259023
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 303
Ryan, C, The Evolution of the Peasant House in Shropshire Medieval c1850 The Parish of Westbury, (), 161
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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