1-5 Porch Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House. 12 related planning applications.
1-5 Porch Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tenth-lintel-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1-5 Porch Cottages, Church Street, Sidmouth, EX10 9RL
- OS grid reference
- SY 134 900
- Coordinates
- 50.70327, -3.22644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a group of four porch cottages, originally a single porch house, located on Church Street in Sidford. While a date of 1574 is suggested, the building was significantly altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. A local legend claims that Charles II once slept here, though this is unsubstantiated.
The cottages are a two-story block. The front and sides are plastered and whitewashed, while the rear features a stone rubble wall. A dated tablet initially situated on a chimney bears the initials "NIE". The roof is thatched. The windows are largely 19th-century wood casements, with No. 3 featuring a four-light wood mullioned casement. At the rear, there are two oak mullioned casements and a small window cut from a single stone. The cottage doors are plain. Nos. 1 and 2 have small trellis porches to the side of their entrances. One ground floor room features a polygonal stone pier that supports the ceiling.
Local climate
1-5 Porch Cottages receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 12 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- 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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