Old Porch House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. Residential. 4 related planning applications.
Old Porch House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-rafter-mallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Old Porch House, Shadycombe Road, Salcombe, TQ8 8DJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 739 391
- Coordinates
- 50.2389, -3.76913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Porch House, dating from 1660, is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed of narrow coursed stone. It features massive stone chimneys with copes and casement windows. The entrance boasts a wide studded door with wrought strap hinges on lugs. Inside, the house has massive hewn beams and heavy joists, along with a wide fireplace. The attic includes hewn purlins and two-panel doors.
Local climate
Old Porch House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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