Description

SP 1635 6/1 BLOCKLEY ST GEORGE'S TERRACE

25.8.60 Porch House and
Porch Cottage
GV
II

Early C18, probably 1720s, retaining gables and mullions of the Cotswold style.
Two storeys and attics. Mixed ashlar and good quality rubble. Stone slate roof,
coped verges and saddlestones; square ashlar chimneys with moulded capping.
Symmetrical composition with Porch Cottage as an extension to left. Outer gables with
3 windows, centre with 3 more mullion and transom windows with drips on ground floor and
centre of 1st floor. Outer gables have on 1st floor glazing bar sashes in eared
architraves and 3-light mullioned windows with cornices in gables. Reminiscent of the
Talman work at Northwick Park. Doorway to right of centre, Tudor arched with imposts
and moulded spandrels, slender engaged Tuscan columns with entablatures, heavily
moulded cornice; half-glazed door. Sun dial over. Gabled end projections to rear.

Porch Cottage is a 2 storey extension with one range of 2-light mullion windows and
modernised gable and windows.

Listing NGR: SP1651235080

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591083

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)