The Porches is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
The Porches
- WRENN ID
- rooted-loggia-hemlock
- 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, 8 Park Road, Guilsfield, SY21 9NN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 218 115
- Coordinates
- 52.69588, -3.15746
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Porches is a two-storey building constructed from coursed stone rubble and topped with a slate roof. It features five bays and two steeply gabled front porches. Each porch has a two-centred open outer arch; the northern porch provides access to the entrance doors of Nos 7 and 8, which are set on a cant and framed with cover beads on the boards. Inside the porch, there is a plaster vault ceiling. At the southern end, No 6 has a 20th-century external door, and the porch overlaps the end of the building, indicating that a further cottage was likely intended to share the external stack, which is now replaced by a single-storey extension. The building includes two-light timber Gothic windows, each fitted with a single horizontally barred metal casement. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension at the rear of No 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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