Porch House

CORSHAM HIGH STREET ST 8770 (west side) 5/209 No 33 and Porch House (formerly listed as 2 separate items) 20.12.60 GV II

Two houses, now doctors surgery, house to left late C17, house to right, Porch House, is refronted to right, with porch addition, in later C18 with early C19 matching addition to left. House to left is roughcast rubble stone, stone tiled roof with slate verges, coped south gable, ridge stack and south end stack, 2½ storeys and 2-window range. Two coped dormer gables, one windowless, one with 2-light mullion window and hoodmould. Two first floor 3-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Leaded lights to gable and first floor windows. Ground floor 4-light mullion window with hoodmould to left and 6-panel half-glazed door with side-lights to right. All mullion windows are recessed ovolo-moulded. Flush quoins at south-east angle. Parallel rear range with coped south gable, south end stack, upper 12-pane sash and former door with dripstone over, now window to south end wall. Rear wall is roughcast, one window range to right, ashlar canted bay with parapet to left. From south-west corner runs rubble stone wall, coped, ramped up to 2 ashlar corniced gatepiers with raised gatestops, scroll-capped. Porch House, to right, is roughly symmetrical but of 2, possibly 3 builds. Two storey and attic, 5-window range with projecting centre porch bay. Twelve-pane sashes throughout. Left side, c1820-30, is ashlar fronted with raised plinth, band, south end angle strip, moulded cornice and parapet. Mansard slate roof with coped gables, north end stack and one dormer. Centre porch bay, c1760-70 is part ashlar with moulded cornice and parapet, first floor sashes to front and sides, all in moulded architraves and ground floor moulded flush doorcase with iron gate in Roman Doric columned and pedimented surround. Panelled seats and 6-panel door in timber architrave within porch. Right side, apparently remodelled to match porch bay is rendered with band applied in timber, moulded ashlar cornice and parapet, coped north gable, north end stack and one dormer. Windows unmoulded as on early C19 range. Spearhead iron railings in front. Rear has 12-pane sashes and one 16-pane stair light to early C19 range.

Listing NGR: ST8721770471