PORCH HOUSE

PORCH HOUSE, BROADWAY STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248146
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: PORCH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PORCH HOUSE, BROADWAY STREET

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Date:: 2002-10-03
Reference:: IOE01/09282/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248146
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: PORCH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PORCH HOUSE, BROADWAY STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PORCH HOUSE, BROADWAY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broadway
National Grid Reference:: ST3179415405

Details

ST31NW BROADWAY CP BROADWAY STREET (north side)

3/4 Porch House

4.2.58

- II

Farmhouse now dwelling, Late medieval, ceiled late C16-early C17, south gable end rebuilt or refaced mid C19 and roof raised on southern half of east front, restored and largely refenestrated late C20. West wall cob, now rendered, south gable end squared and coursed Ham stone and blue lias with high plinth, east front rebuilt with squared and coursed local stone to southern hall, random rubble to lower northern part with some courses of laid stonework below windows, thatched roof with catslide over south-west bay, coped verges south gable end and rebuilt brick stacks at gable ends and north end of hall. L-plan set south gable end onto road: open hall house ceiled to 3-cell and cross passage with outshot in south-west corner. West front: one 3-light casement in eyebrow dormer left, ground flour right C20 doorway masked by C20 addition, 3-light window below wooden lintel, pointed lancet to stair set below eaves, 3-light casement left and remains of chamfered Tudor arch head doorway now blocked in lower half and glazed above; C20 door in re-entrant angle of outshot with 4-light window between stepped buttresses. East front: three 3-light windows set below eaves left, ground floor 4- and 3-light casements flanking thatched hooded porch and 3- and 2-light windows below wooden lintels to right. North front entered at first floor level by lateral stone stair. South gable end; chamfered 2-light stone mullioned casement with hoodmould instead of lintel lighting outshot, possibly reused. Interior not seen, said to contain remains of plank and muntin screens to through passage with shaped heads to doorframes and plank and muntin partition to outshot, possibly removed during modernisation, a timber-framed firehood to hall stack, stairs now resited against west wall, and 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses, one at least with evidence of smoke blackening. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, undated).

Listing NGR: ST3179415405

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Legacy System number:: 264059
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.