Description

In the entry for

YAXLEY NORMAN CROSS
Norman House
20/190

The address shall be amended to read:

TL 1691 YAXLEY LONDON ROAD
Norman Cross
20/190
Norman House

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YAXLEY NORMAN CROSS
TL 1691
20/190 Norman House
GV II
House formerly the Norman Cross Barrack Master's House. 1796-7 with late C19
alterations. Painted brick with limestone dressings. Slated roofs. Three
storeys and half basement. Main entrance approached by balustraded stone
steps and C19 verandah with C18 pedimented doorcase. South elevation of five
bays with centre bay infilled; recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows
reduced at third storey to six panes. Two square planned stacks to north and
south breaking plain parapet continuous to each elevation. Shaped flanking
screen walls termate with small urns. The Norman Cross Barracks were built to
accommodate the French prisioners of war during the Napoleonic wars; they
were dismantled in 1816, the master's house is the only building to survive
and is illustrated in a drawing c.1810.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p241

Listing NGR: TL1638191110

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564038

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)