Porch House
PORCH HOUSE, BUNGAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373181
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Porch House
- Statutory Address:
- PORCH HOUSE, BUNGAY ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01833/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373181
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Porch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORCH HOUSE, BUNGAY ROAD
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, BUNGAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Poringland
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 27171 01744
Details
PORINGLAND BUNGAY ROAD TG 20 SE (north side) 5/42 Porch House (formerly 26/11/59 listed as Porch Farmhouse) II* House, once a farmhouse. Late C16. Flint, brick and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Pantiled roof. Through passage plan. 2 storeys in 4 bays with plinth course. Full height gabled porch set left of centre with attic storey. Rectangular entrance with moulded stone surround and with consoles. Quadrant moulded inner doorway. Above entrance is a square niche. 3-light C20 mullioned windows to first and attic storeys. Gabled roof. Window surrounds to porch and all other windows are ashlar. Fenestration of mullioned or cross casements of C20. Door to left of facade into kitchen in original surround. Gabled roof. Twin octagonal flues to gable end stacks, that to north-west rebuilt. Gable heads on kneelers. Stairway outshuts to both gables under narrow sloping pantiled roofs. West gable with a 2-light chamfered C16 stone mullioned window to first floor and a similar hollow chamfered attic window. This attic window repeated in east gable; the first floor window replaced C20. Both staircase outshuts with one C20 window each. Rear has modest C19 and C20 extensions, the former part with flint, the latter wholly of brick. Pantiled roofs. Doorway and a 4-light C20 cross casement to left of extensions. 2 timber hollow chamfered mullioned windows to first floor, one of 4 lights, the other of 8. Interior. Porch opens into cross passage with studwork partitions. Kitchen with wide fireplace and bressumers and stone surround. Bridging beams are chamfered and tongue stopped. Similar fireplace in lounge but with replaced bressumer. Winders by both stacks at each end of house, both with octagonal newels. Floorboards are original as are most doors. Staircase at high end blocked at attic level. Roof of tie beams, diminished principals, clasped purlins, collars and curved windbracing. Many timbers renewed.
Listing NGR: TG2717101744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 227180
- 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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