Porch Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1949. A C17 Cottage row.
Porch Cottages
- WRENN ID
- night-keystone-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1949
- Type
- Cottage row
- Address
- Porch Cottages, 129 and 131-135, Withycombe Road, Exmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 008 819
- Coordinates
- 50.62837, -3.40277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch Cottages, located on Withycombe Road in Withycombe Raleigh, is a row of cottages likely dating from the 17th century. The cottages are rendered white over cob and brick and feature hipped thatched roofs. No 129 is positioned at right angles to the rear of No 131. The row is two storeys high and has a total of six windows, which are generally from the late 18th or early 19th century. No 131 includes a gabled porch with a dog grate and an old door frame. Nos 133 and 135 are adorned with 18th-century hoods supported by brackets. No 129 has two adapted sash windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Porch Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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