Porch House and Porch Cottage

PORCH HOUSE AND PORCH COTTAGE, ST GEORGE'S TERRACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1304071
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Porch House and Porch Cottage
Statutory Address:
PORCH HOUSE AND PORCH COTTAGE, ST GEORGE'S TERRACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1304071
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Porch House and Porch Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PORCH HOUSE AND PORCH COTTAGE, ST GEORGE'S TERRACE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PORCH HOUSE AND PORCH COTTAGE, ST GEORGE'S TERRACE

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Blockley
National Grid Reference:
SP1651235080

Details

SP 1635 6/1 BLOCKLEY ST GEORGE'S TERRACE

25.8.60 Porch House and
Porch Cottage
GV
II


Early C18, probably 1720s, retaining gables and mullions of the Cotswold style.
Two storeys and attics. Mixed ashlar and good quality rubble. Stone slate roof,
coped verges and saddlestones; square ashlar chimneys with moulded capping.
Symmetrical composition with Porch Cottage as an extension to left. Outer gables with
3 windows, centre with 3 more mullion and transom windows with drips on ground floor and
centre of 1st floor. Outer gables have on 1st floor glazing bar sashes in eared
architraves and 3-light mullioned windows with cornices in gables. Reminiscent of the
Talman work at Northwick Park. Doorway to right of centre, Tudor arched with imposts
and moulded spandrels, slender engaged Tuscan columns with entablatures, heavily
moulded cornice; half-glazed door. Sun dial over. Gabled end projections to rear.

Porch Cottage is a 2 storey extension with one range of 2-light mullion windows and
modernised gable and windows.


Listing NGR: SP1651235080

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
126881
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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