Norton Manor, Walls Enclosing Forecourt, and Terraces on South East Front is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1977. Country house.
Norton Manor, Walls Enclosing Forecourt, and Terraces on South East Front
- WRENN ID
- sombre-balcony-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1977
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Norton Manor, Walls Enclosing Forecourt, and Terraces on South East Front, Norton Fitzwarren
- OS grid reference
- ST 187 270
- Coordinates
- 51.03699, -3.16045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norton Manor is a country house, now serving as an officers' mess, built in 1843 by Henry Roberts for Charles Moel Welman. The building features buff bricks with black headers arranged in a deeper pattern, stone dressings, quoins, slate roofs, coped verges, and brick lateral stacks on the facade, located at the end bay on the right and between the second and third bays on the left. It has a long range that lies roughly from northwest to southeast, with a forecourt at the entrance front and terraced gardens on the southeast front. The design is in the Tudor Gothic style and consists of two storeys with an attic, featuring an eight-bay garden front that has gabled first bays. The fourth and fifth bays are gabled, with a dormer above the entrance and a 20th-century dormer on the left. The windows are mullioned and transomed, set under hood moulds, and there is a coat of arms on the lateral stack to the right. The entrance, located in the sixth bay on the left, has a single-storey gabled porch with a moulded four-centred arch opening, a Tudor-style panelled inner door with a wicket door, and a leaded-light window above. The garden front includes canted bays and lateral stacks. The terrace features ashlar lattice work and a buttressed retaining wall, which returns on the southeast front with a similar structure below, but without a retaining wall, and includes stone seats. A dwarf wall in a similar style encloses the forecourt.
Inside, the hall is panelled with a compartment ceiling and an arcade of Tudor arch heads. The dining room is also panelled and includes a built-in sideboard in a bay with a Tudor arch head, a lozenge plaster ceiling, a fireplace in a similar Tudor Gothic style, and a dog-leg stair. Henry Roberts is particularly noted for designing model dwellings for the working classes.
Local climate
Norton Manor, Walls Enclosing Forecourt, and Terraces on South East Front receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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