Porch House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. A Georgian House.
Porch House
- WRENN ID
- vast-bracket-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Porch House, 83, New Street, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 492 192
- Coordinates
- 50.95249, -4.14796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch House, located at 83 New Street, dates from around 1700 and has undergone alterations. This two-storey building features seven first-floor flush frame sash windows with glazing bars and a dark red brick front. It has a cove cornice and a string course at the first floor that includes two courses of diagonally set headers. On the ground floor, there is a splayed bay window on the left with altered glazing. The later brick porch appears to have been adapted from a Tuscan design, and the roof is covered with later slates. The brick chimneys have moulded caps. Porch House is part of a group with Nos 77, 77A, and 83.
Local climate
Porch House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
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