Porch House
PORCH HOUSE, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252922
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Porch House
- Statutory Address:
- PORCH HOUSE, WEST END
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04543/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252922
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Porch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORCH HOUSE, WEST END
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:
- PORCH HOUSE, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wedmore
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4295847454
Details
ST44NW
10/220
9.2.61
WEDMORE CP
WEST END (South side)
Porch House
(previously listed as Porch House and Barn)
GV
II
House. Mid C17 for John Westovers, further C18 work, C19 additions and alterations. Random rubble, double Roman tile
roof, 3 brick stacks. Two storeys, 1:1:2 bays; to left C19 sash windows; to right 3-light leaded casements with
original quadrants and latches; to centre gabled projecting upper room, timber framed and roughcast on 2 circular stone
columns, forming a porch; single 3-light casement to each face, ovolo moulded mullions, leaded lights. Beneath the
porch a studded plank door in a plain wooden frame. Short section of wall below the columns of the porch, central
wrought-iron gate. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, 1977; The Weston Mercury and Somersetshire Herald, June 5, 1959;
Country Life, October 9 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4295847454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436046
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Weston Mercury and Somersetshire Herald in 5 June, (1959)
Country Life in 9 October, (1958)
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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