Porch House Farmhouse

SO 98 SE HUNNINGTON BROMSGROVE ROAD

1649/3/10004 Porch House Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Circa early C18, possibly on site of earlier house; altered circa 1840, and altered again and extended circa early C20. English and Flemish bond red brick; rendered at front. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Large brick gable-end stacks with set-offs and grouped shafts. PLAN: T-shaped on plan; two principal rooms in front range with central entrance passage leading to small stairhall and kitchen wing at rear. Single-storey outhouse on gable end of rear wing. In circa 1840 the front was rendered and refenestrated. In early C20 bay windows were were added to the front and a large single-storey billiard room wing was built in the rear left [NE] angle. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-window rendered west front with stringcourses; 12- and 16-pane sashes on first floor; two early C20 canted bay windows on ground floor, and central doorway with glazed and panelled door, rectangular overlight with margin panes and early C20 gabled porch. Rear [E] cross-mullion-transom windows and large wing at centre with single-storey outhouse on gable end. INTERIOR: Left-hand front room has deeply chamfered intersecting ceiling beams. Right-hand front room has deeply chamfered axial beam, and large fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer, converted to inglenook. Kitchen in rear wing has shallow chamfered cross-beam. First floor chambers have deeply chamfered axial beams, right-hand room with stops buried in the walls and simple moulded chimneypiece. Good early C18 open-well staircase with moulded string with block rusticated frieze, widely spaced turned balusters, heavy handrails and square newels. Tie-beam and collar roof trusses with angle struts and two tiers of trenched purlins, diagonally-set ridgepiece and common-rafters intact. Cellar under rear wing has chamfered beam, unchamfered joists and stone mullion windows.

Listing NGR: SO9643080152