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Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding

A Grade II Listed Building in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9923 / 51°59'32"N

Longitude: -0.2115 / 0°12'41"W

OS Eastings: 522896

OS Northings: 234157

OS Grid: TL228341

Mapcode National: GBR J6X.1C9

Mapcode Global: VHGNM.9611

Plus Code: 9C3XXQRQ+W9

Entry Name: Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding

Listing Date: 27 May 1954

Last Amended: 7 September 1979

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1295753

English Heritage Legacy ID: 161883

ID on this website: 101295753

Location: Norton, North Hertfordshire, SG6

County: Hertfordshire

District: North Hertfordshire

Electoral Ward/Division: Letchworth East

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Letchworth Garden City

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Norton

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


NORTON ROAD
1.
5255
(south-east side)
Norton
No 105
(Norton Old Manor House,
adjoining barn and outbuilding)
(formerly listed as Old Manor
House and adjoining outbuilding
TL 2234 5/14 27.5.54
II
2.
C17 farmhouse, later divided into 3 cottages. Radically modernised by Parker
and Unwin in 1909, which included the provision of an open-air bed-space on
a balcony at the rear. The attached barn was converted for use as a badminton
court. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3 bay front with end bays gabled. Tiled
roof with rendered stack and gabled dormer over central entrance. Rendered
front, eastern gable walls of whitewashed brick, slightly projecting, with
bands at ceiling levels. Sloping brick buttresses of 1909 to east return elevation.
Modern 2 and 3 light casements, those in eastern bay in old window openings
with segmental arched heads. Modern boarded door. Adjoining weather-boarded
and thatch outbuilding set back at right-angles to house. ('Some Houses at
Letchworth' Country Life 21.12.1912; VCH Herts vol 2, p 361.)


Listing NGR: TL2289634157

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