The Porches is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Porches
- WRENN ID
- lost-trefoil-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Porches, 6 Park Road, Guilsfield, SY21 9NN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 218 115
- Coordinates
- 52.69579, -3.1575
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Porches is a two-storey building dating from the 18th century, constructed from coursed stone rubble with a slate roof. It comprises five bays and features two steeply gabled front porches. The northern porch provides access to the entrance doors of numbers 7 and 8, being set on a cant and incorporating doors framed with cover beads. The interior of this porch has a plastered vault. Number 6, located at the southern end, has a 20th-century external door, with the porch extending beyond the end of the building, indicating a possible intention for a further cottage, sharing an external stack – now occupied by a single-storey extension. The building features two-light timber Gothic windows, each with a single horizontally barred metal casement. A 20th-century extension has been added to the rear of number 8, known as Porch House.
Local climate
The Porches receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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