Porterhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Porterhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-thatch-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porterhouse, the Green, Abthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SP 649 465
- Coordinates
- 52.11354, -1.05362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porterhouse is a house dated 1760, built of red brick in Flemish bond and painted white, with a ridged tile roof and brick end stacks. It has an L-plan layout and is two stories tall with a two-window range facing the street. The main front features a blocked door to the left of center and a shallow bay, which was a former shop window, to the left, topped with a straight hood supported by brackets. The window to the right and those on the first floor have 20th-century frames that replaced the original sashes, and they have flat-arched heads with stone keyblocks. There is a renewed datestone inscribed MP/1760 located in the center of the first floor. The building also has a storey band and moulded brick eaves, with the roof hipped to the left. The rear left wing includes a 20th-century door and similar windows that have replaced the original sashes. Inside, the house features ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams and a fitted cupboard with a round-arched head and shaped shelves.
Local climate
Porterhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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