NORTON MANOR, WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, AND TERRACES ON SOUTH EAST FRONT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344513
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1977
List Entry Name:: NORTON MANOR, WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, AND TERRACES ON SOUTH EAST FRONT
Statutory Address:: NORTON MANOR, WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, AND TERRACES ON SOUTH EAST FRONT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344513
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: NORTON MANOR, WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, AND TERRACES ON SOUTH EAST FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: NORTON MANOR, WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, AND TERRACES ON SOUTH EAST FRONT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTON MANOR, WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT, AND TERRACES ON SOUTH EAST FRONT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Norton Fitzwarren
National Grid Reference:: ST 18732 27045

Details

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)

II

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 270666
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Curl, J S, The Life and Work of Henry Roberts 1803-1876, (1983)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.