Nortons Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 2005. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Nortons Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-dormer-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 2005
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Nortons Farmhouse, Mount Bures, CO8 5AY
- OS grid reference
- TL 908 312
- Coordinates
- 51.94704, 0.77558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norton's Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that features a mid-20th-century rear extension and alterations. It is constructed with a timber frame and rendered exterior, topped with a pitched roof made of re-used clay pin tiles and a brick chimneystack. The building has a three-bay, lobby-entry plan.
The main elevation includes an axial stack with linked polygonal flues above the lobby entrance, which is adorned with a 19th-century porch featuring scalloped bargeboards and ogee arched braces. There are also two dormers and 20th-century windows. The left gable end showcases long studs, diagonal braces, an end plate, and the collar and principal rafters of the A-frame roof, all exposed. On the ground and first floors, there are two fixed leaded light windows within wooden frames.
Inside, the ground floor room to the west has a stopped and chamfered ceiling beam, joists, studs, and diagonal braces on the walls, along with an English bond brick fireplace featuring a bressumer. The two-bay room to the east contains an inglenook fireplace made with thin bricks in stretcher bond, a roughly chamfered spine beam with a halved and bladed scarf joint above a supporting post, and chamfered joists. The studs and mid-rail are present on the front and rear walls, but no framing remains on the right gable end. On the first floor, there is a single room to the west with an A-frame truss at the gable end and a stud wall against the stack, exposing the collars. The two rooms to the east are separated by a stud partition with a diagonal brace, while the central room features studs rising from brick massing and a side cupboard with a plank door.
Overall, Norton's Farmhouse retains a significant portion of its original frame, reflecting its late 17th-century origins.
Local climate
Nortons Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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