The Porches is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House.
The Porches
- WRENN ID
- second-clay-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Porches, High Street, Taplow
- OS grid reference
- SU 911 823
- Coordinates
- 51.53241, -0.68707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Porches is a 17th-century building located on High Street in Taplow. It features a timber-framed structure with colour-washed brick nogging and a machine tile roof. The right side of the building has a two-storey porch that oversails on carved brackets, topped with a gabled roof and bargeboards. The first floor includes a three-light casement window, while the ground floor is open with balusters on the sides and front. The left side has a one-storey gabled, rustic porch. The first floor on this side has one two-light and two three-light casement windows, which are gabled and rise into the roof. The ground floor features one two-light casement and two four-light casements, complete with mullions, transoms, and arched heads. Most of the windows are adorned with diamond leaded lights.
Local climate
The Porches sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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