Old Porch House

SJ 50 SE 4/32

CRESSAGE C.P. CROWN LANE (west side) Old Porch House

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16, north front re-faced mid-C18, with later additions and alterations. Timber framed on rendered plinth with plaster infill (roughcast brick north front), plain tile roofs. Originally an L-plan; hall of 3 framed bays with 2-bay cross-wing projecting to west, the north side of which was re-built in brick in C18; late C19 gabled brick addition and low flat-roofed late C20 extension in angle between. 2 storeys and attics; framing: much renewed in late C20, three irregular square and rectangular panels above girding beam with close-set vertical posts below, long and short straight tension braces; open gabled 2-storey porch (probably mid-C17) on east side of hall range also has close-set vertical posts and a jettied gable on carved corner brackets, splat balusters to sides; 3-bay north front has late C20 glazing bar sashes replacing earlier sash windows, those to ground floor in canted bays, linked by a verandah with a central late C20 French window below; gabled dormers in roof slope to left and right, dentilled eaves cornice; red brick ridge stack to hall range with twin diagonal shafts and moulded capping, prominent external stack to right gable end of north front. Salop Fire Insurance plate numbered 14076 over door in C17 porch. Interior: inspection not possible at time of re-survey (1985) but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SJ5897904047