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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26583458

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]