Norton Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Norton Barton
- WRENN ID
- patient-plinth-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Norton Barton, Broadwoodwidger, PL16 0JT
- OS grid reference
- SX 402 922
- Coordinates
- 50.70757, -4.26405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norton Barton is a farmhouse dating from around the early 18th century, although it may incorporate an earlier core. The exterior is whitewashed and rendered, with a slate roof and rendered stacks at both ends of the building. It has a U-shaped plan, with a main range two rooms deep and two rooms wide, featuring a central passage. Rear wings to the left and right appear to be 19th-century additions, likely used as service rooms. The size of the stack at the right end of the building suggests the current structure may be a remodel of a 17th-century house.
The front façade is symmetrical, with three windows across the front and a regular pattern of windows. A central porch has a sloping slate roof supported by stone cheeks. The ground floor windows are three-light casements with three panes per light, with the right-hand window slightly larger and lower than the others. The first floor windows to the left and right are three-light casements with two panes per light, while the central window is a similar two-light casement.
Inside, a chamfered cross beam is visible on the ground floor to the right. Some original 18th-century joinery details remain.
Local climate
Norton Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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