Porch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage.
Porch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-storey-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Porch Cottage, Front Street, Monksilver
- OS grid reference
- ST 073 374
- Coordinates
- 51.12885, -3.32556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a slate roof with a brick stack on the right side. The building is one and a half storeys tall and consists of three bays. The upper storey has two-light casements in gabled dormers, while the ground floor has three-light casements. At the center, there is a gabled porch with a depressed arch head that leads to a studded plank inner door. The cottage is primarily listed for its group value with Half Moon Cottage and the Old Post Office.
Local climate
Porch Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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