Porch House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Porch House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-cellar-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porch House, the Street, Eastling, ME13 0AY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 963 566
- Coordinates
- 51.27544, 0.81367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch House is a 16th-century house located on the west side of The Street in Eastling. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and has a painted brick underbuilding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The house has a two-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high. It has a steeply hipped roof with gablets and a prominent central multiple stack.
The central porch is gabled, timber-framed, and jettied over the red brick ground floor. On the first floor, there are two wooden casements, along with one in the porch. There are bay windows on both the left and right sides, with an additional wooden casement on the ground floor to the right. The porch features a boarded door and a round-arched brick doorway with imposts.
Local climate
Porch House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Radon risk assessment
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