Description

PORINGLAND BUNGAY ROAD
TG 20 SE
(north side)
5/42 Porch House (formerly
26/11/59 listed as Porch
Farmhouse)
II*
House, once a farmhouse. Late C16. Flint, brick and ashlar with ashlar
dressings. Pantiled roof. Through passage plan. 2 storeys in 4 bays with
plinth course. Full height gabled porch set left of centre with attic storey.
Rectangular entrance with moulded stone surround and with consoles. Quadrant
moulded inner doorway. Above entrance is a square niche. 3-light C20
mullioned windows to first and attic storeys. Gabled roof. Window surrounds
to porch and all other windows are ashlar. Fenestration of mullioned or cross
casements of C20. Door to left of facade into kitchen in original surround.
Gabled roof. Twin octagonal flues to gable end stacks, that to north-west
rebuilt. Gable heads on kneelers. Stairway outshuts to both gables under
narrow sloping pantiled roofs. West gable with a 2-light chamfered C16 stone
mullioned window to first floor and a similar hollow chamfered attic window.
This attic window repeated in east gable; the first floor window replaced C20.
Both staircase outshuts with one C20 window each. Rear has modest C19 and
C20 extensions, the former part with flint, the latter wholly of brick.
Pantiled roofs. Doorway and a 4-light C20 cross casement to left of extensions.
2 timber hollow chamfered mullioned windows to first floor, one of 4 lights,
the other of 8. Interior. Porch opens into cross passage with studwork
partitions. Kitchen with wide fireplace and bressumers and stone surround.
Bridging beams are chamfered and tongue stopped. Similar fireplace in lounge
but with replaced bressumer. Winders by both stacks at each end of house,
both with octagonal newels. Floorboards are original as are most doors.
Staircase at high end blocked at attic level. Roof of tie beams, diminished
principals, clasped purlins, collars and curved windbracing. Many timbers
renewed.

Listing NGR: TG2717101744

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533136

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