Norton House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Norton House

WRENN ID
lapsed-passage-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Norton House, 5, Church Street, Bishop's Castle, SY9 5AA
OS grid reference
SO 323 885
Coordinates
52.49045, -2.99847
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Norton House is a house dating from the 17th century, which was underbuilt and refaced in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame that is underbuilt with limestone rubble and has a stucco facing. The house has a slate roof and consists of two ranges on the right side. It has three framed bays and is two storeys high, with deep eaves and integral brick end stacks on the right. There is also a 17th-century lateral brick stack at the rear, positioned off-centre to the left. The front has three windows, which are 16-pane glazing bar sashes.

The entrance features a mid- to late-19th-century four-panelled door located between the first and second windows from the right. This door has a four-part rectangular overlight, an architrave, and a bracketed hood. Inside, there is evidence of a former continuously jettied first floor, with chamfered and stopped beams. Notable interior features include two moulded and carved beams with bold leaf decoration on the underside, 17th-century corner fireplaces with chamfered lintels, and an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase. The staircase has winders, a closed string, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, a columnular bottom newel post, and splat balusters on the landing that are shaped to resemble turned twisted balusters.

Local climate

Norton House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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