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A brick house with a central ivy-covered porch, sash windows, and two women standing in the doorway behind a picket fence.

Porch House, Haddenham circa 1900 (Fenland History)

Porch House, 40 Hill Row, Haddenham

History of Porch House

Listed Building

1657. Red brick, English bond, on plinth with bull nose header brick to upper edge. Plain tiled roof with saw tooth eaves cornice and parapet on kneelers to west gable. Ridge stack has square base and four diagonally set grouped shafts……… In the 1650s an Act of Parliament was passed to promote the drainage of part of Haddenham Parish. This house is believed to have been built to accommodate one of the engineers employed on the scheme. (Historic England)


A man in a suit and hat sits in the arched brick porch of a building covered in dense ivy, with a picket fence visible.

Porch House, Haddenham 15.9.1932 6pm (MoC88/57)

Two-story red brick house with a gabled porch featuring a 1637 date stone, tiled roof, chimneys, and climbing greenery.

Porch House, Haddenham circa 2020

Building dates

  • Built 1657
Source for this date
  • Built 1657: Listed building: 1657 (grade II)

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  • Haddenham

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