Norton Court Including Courtyard Walls and Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. House, courtyard.
Norton Court Including Courtyard Walls and Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- House, courtyard
- Address
- Norton Court Including Courtyard Walls and Outbuildings, Norton Lane, Buckland and Stone
- OS grid reference
- TQ 967 612
- Coordinates
- 51.31591, 0.82177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norton Court, including the courtyard walls and outbuildings, is a house and courtyards dating from the 17th century. It was remodeled in the early 19th century and again in 1910 by Sir Reginald Blomfield. The building features painted brick in Flemish bond with a plain tiled roof. It has two storeys on a plinth, with a platband and cornice, and an attic that includes three pedimented dormers. There are stacks located to the rear right and left. The windows have irregular fenestration, consisting of six glazing bar sashes with shutters on the first floor and four segment-headed glazing bar sashes on the ground floor. There are two eight-panelled doors on either side of the building. The main entrance is located on the right return front, featuring double doors with six panels and a tracered elliptical fanlight, flanked by attached Doric columns. The rear ranges are tile hung and half-hipped.
Inside, there is a painted "monks room" decorated by a fugitive Catholic recusant from the 17th century. The courtyard and garden walls at the rear of the house are made of painted and red brick, approximately eight feet high, enclosing three courts that cover an area roughly 100 yards long by 60 yards wide. The house was originally built in 1625 for the Milles family, possibly designed by Inigo Jones. It was remodeled in the early 19th century and restored by Blomfield in 1910. The main range was destroyed by fire in 1966, and the current building, dating from the late 17th century, was originally a service wing to the main range.
Local climate
Norton Court Including Courtyard Walls and Outbuildings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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