Porch House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House.
Porch House
- WRENN ID
- final-cornice-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porch House, West End, Wedmore, BS28 4BA
- OS grid reference
- ST 429 474
- Coordinates
- 51.22341, -2.81821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porch House is a house dating from the mid-17th century, originally built for John Westovers, with further work done in the 18th century and 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of random rubble and features a double Roman tile roof with three brick stacks. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade with one bay on the left containing 19th-century sash windows, and two bays on the right featuring three-light leaded casements with original quadrants and latches.
At the center, there is a gabled projecting upper room that is timber framed and roughcast, supported by two circular stone columns, creating a porch. Each face of the porch has a single three-light casement with ovolo moulded mullions and leaded lights. Beneath the porch is a studded plank door set in a plain wooden frame. There is a short section of wall below the porch columns, with a central wrought-iron gate.
Local climate
Porch House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
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