Porch House

Porch House is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a roof raised in the 19th century and renovations and additions made in the late 20th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is plaster rendered, topped with a 19th-century roof of red pantiles. The house has a mid to late 17th-century ridge stack and follows a single range, three-bay lobby entry plan. It stands two storeys high, with two first-floor windows, one of which is a horizontal sliding sash, and three ground-floor windows.

The porch, dating from around 1670, is timber-framed and plaster rendered to imitate stone, with a tiled gable roof and shaped bargeboarded ends. The gable end displays a pointed arch with a keyblock, demi shafts, pierced spandrels, and symmetrically turned mullions, while the side walls are blocked. Inside, there are abutting inglenook hearths made of reused limestone and brick. The interior also features early to mid-17th-century run-through panelling that has been reset around one inglenook, along with an overmantel in five bays of arcading separated by fluted pilasters. Despite the alterations, the wall frame on both the ground and first floors remains largely intact.