In the 1950s, the screened in porch on the northwest side of the house was also enclosed and an addition was built to wrap around to the old kitchen door (beneath the sleeping porch). This section was covered in cement board shingles which were continued around to cover the wood siding on the rest of the house. When removing these shingles, I discovered the original siding on the two-storey section is intact and in reasonably good shape.
Some repairs and trim will be necessary but nothing major. The one-storey section will be getting new clapboard siding.
In the second photograph you can see the shape of original screened-in porch on the north-west side of the house, the plywood filled in where the screens used to be. The only way that room would have been tolerable is if it were heavily shaded by trees. In the summertime, the afternoon sun on that side of the house is brutal.
