Norton Manor, Walls Enclosing Forecourt, And Terraces On South East Front

ST12NE NORTH FITZWARREN CP NORTON MANOR CAMP 4/132 North Manor, walls enclosing forecourt and terraces on South-East front (Previously listes as Stable 8.8.77 Court)

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Country house, now officers mess. 1843, By Henry Roberts for Charles Moel Welman. Buff bricks, black headers in deeper pattern, Has stone dressings, quoins, slate roofs, coped verges, brick lateral stacks on facade end bay right, between second and third bays left. Long range lying roughly North-West South-East, forecourt on entrace front and terraced gardens on South East front. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys it attic, 8 bay garden front gabled first; fourth and fifth bays, gabled dormer above entrance, inserted C20 dormer left, mullioned and transomed windows under hood moulds, coat of arms lateral stack right, entrance sixth bay left, single storey gabled porch, moulded 4-centred arch opening, Tudor style pan1led inner door with wicket door, leaded-light above. Garden front with canted bays and latent stacks. Terrace of ashlar lattice work, buttressed retaining wall, returned on South East front with similar below without retaining wall, stone seats. Dwarf wall in similar style enclosing forecourt. Interior: hall panelled with compartment ceiling and arcade of Tudor arch heads, panelled dining rood with built in sideboard. in Tudor arch head bay, lozenge plaster ceiling, fireplace in similar Tudor Gothic style and dog leg stair. Henry Roberts is best known as the architect of model dwellings for the working classes, (J S Curl, The Life and Work of Henry Roberts 180S-1876, 1983).

Listing NGR: ST1873227045