Gatepiers and Gate at Entrance to Norton Court is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Gateway.
Gatepiers and Gate at Entrance to Norton Court
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gatepiers and Gate at Entrance to Norton Court, Norton Fitzwarren
- OS grid reference
- ST 196 258
- Coordinates
- 51.02683, -3.14648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers and gate at the entrance to Norton Court date from the 18th century, with the lions possibly being older and reset. The gates were made in the early to mid-19th century. Constructed from Ham stone and cast iron, the gatepiers are square and rusticated, featuring square-cut joints, a moulded cornice, and a plinth topped with lions seated. The gate itself is double, with pierced fleurs-de-lys uprights. According to Jeboult in his 1892 work "History of West Somerset," the lions served as the escutcheons of the Prowse family, who previously occupied Norton Court.
Local climate
Gatepiers and Gate at 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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