Walls Enclosing Garden on North and East Side, Opposite Entrance to Norton Court is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Garden wall.

Walls Enclosing Garden on North and East Side, Opposite Entrance to Norton Court

WRENN ID
late-portal-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1955
Type
Garden wall
Address
Walls Enclosing Garden on North and East Side, Opposite Entrance to Norton Court, Norton Fitzwarren
OS grid reference
ST 196 259
Coordinates
51.02693, -3.14669
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls enclosing the garden on the north and east sides, located opposite the entrance to Norton Court, date from the early 18th century and were partly renewed in the mid-20th century. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a random rubble plinth and brick and Ham stone coping, standing approximately 2.5 meters high. The walls form a rectangular kitchen garden, with the north wall measuring about 50 meters in length, part of which serves as the boundary wall for Cedar Gables (not included). This wall features a square-headed doorway that has had additional brickwork added above it. The east wall is about 70 meters long and has a single span opening at the north end, flanked by square gatepiers topped with stone ball finials. These gatepiers have a cyma recta moulded cornice, scroll-topped revertments, and moulded coping on the plinth, resembling those at Buckland House in Durston. At the time of the survey in March 1984, the walls were heavily overgrown with ivy. Approximately 20 meters to the south, there is a square projection with brick coping that stands about 3 meters high, likely a gazebo or summer house, which has had its upper courses and coping renewed. There is also a double gate opening about 20 meters further south, with the southern gatepier rebuilt and lacking ball finials, featuring a 20th-century double gate. The wall continues south to The Lodge (not included) and sweeps down, with the upper courses of brickwork and coping having been renewed. This area was formerly the kitchen garden for Norton Court.

Local climate

Walls Enclosing Garden on North and East Side, Opposite Entrance to Norton Court receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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