Porch House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Porch House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-gable-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porch House, 25, High Street, Great Shelford, CB22 5EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 460 521
- Coordinates
- 52.14816, 0.13378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Porch House is a late 18th-century house which was enlarged in the mid-to-late 19th century with the addition of a range at the rear. It is constructed of grey gault brick with a plain tiled mansard roof, featuring a dentil eaves cornice and end stacks. The house consists of a single range with a mid-to-late 19th-century parallel range at the rear, creating a double pile arrangement. It has two storeys and attics, with two dormers. The front facade has been remodelled with a three-window range of mid-to-late 19th-century recessed sash windows, each with four panes, set within flat stone arches. A late 18th-century central doorway is distinguished by a shouldered doorcase surround, a panelled door, and a Doric portico with a flat roof.
Local climate
Porch House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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