Porch House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 7 related planning applications.
Porch House
- WRENN ID
- endless-gable-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porch House, Lugwardine, HR1 4AG
- OS grid reference
- SO 551 410
- Coordinates
- 52.06625, -2.6558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Porch House is an early to mid-19th century house located in Lugwardine. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a hipped slate roof, and is two rooms deep. The house has end stacks and an axial stack. The south front has bands of quoins, a modillion eaves cornice, and is arranged with a 1:1:1:2 window pattern, featuring segmental-headed sash windows with decorative glazing bars. A Tuscan portico is located to the left of centre, incorporating an inner doorway with a decorative overlight and a panelled door. Decorative conjoined star-plan shafts rise to the stacks.
Local climate
Porch House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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