Porch House
33, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183122
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Porch House
- Statutory Address:
- 33, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183122
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Porch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 33, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PORCH HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- 33, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PORCH HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87221 70475
Details
CORSHAM HIGH STREET ST 8770 (west side) 5/209 No 33 and Porch House (formerly listed as 2 separate items) 20.12.60 GV II
Two houses, now doctors surgery, house to left late C17, house to right, Porch House, is refronted to right, with porch addition, in later C18 with early C19 matching addition to left. House to left is roughcast rubble stone, stone tiled roof with slate verges, coped south gable, ridge stack and south end stack, 2½ storeys and 2-window range. Two coped dormer gables, one windowless, one with 2-light mullion window and hoodmould. Two first floor 3-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Leaded lights to gable and first floor windows. Ground floor 4-light mullion window with hoodmould to left and 6-panel half-glazed door with side-lights to right. All mullion windows are recessed ovolo-moulded. Flush quoins at south-east angle. Parallel rear range with coped south gable, south end stack, upper 12-pane sash and former door with dripstone over, now window to south end wall. Rear wall is roughcast, one window range to right, ashlar canted bay with parapet to left. From south-west corner runs rubble stone wall, coped, ramped up to 2 ashlar corniced gatepiers with raised gatestops, scroll-capped. Porch House, to right, is roughly symmetrical but of 2, possibly 3 builds. Two storey and attic, 5-window range with projecting centre porch bay. Twelve-pane sashes throughout. Left side, c1820-30, is ashlar fronted with raised plinth, band, south end angle strip, moulded cornice and parapet. Mansard slate roof with coped gables, north end stack and one dormer. Centre porch bay, c1760-70 is part ashlar with moulded cornice and parapet, first floor sashes to front and sides, all in moulded architraves and ground floor moulded flush doorcase with iron gate in Roman Doric columned and pedimented surround. Panelled seats and 6-panel door in timber architrave within porch. Right side, apparently remodelled to match porch bay is rendered with band applied in timber, moulded ashlar cornice and parapet, coped north gable, north end stack and one dormer. Windows unmoulded as on early C19 range. Spearhead iron railings in front. Rear has 12-pane sashes and one 16-pane stair light to early C19 range.
Listing NGR: ST8721770471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315236
- 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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