Norman Cottage

Norman Cottage is a curate’s house, now a private residence, dating from around 1870 and constructed entirely in a fanciful Norman Revival style. A 20th-century extension and alterations have also been made. The building is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof, featuring raised coped gables and two round gable and one square ridge stack. The plan is cruciform. It is a single-storey building with attics, and the brickwork incorporates herringbone courses to the base, clasping pilaster buttresses to the angles, scalloped corbels to the eaves and verges, and a zone of angled textured brickwork to the gables. Projecting centre bays on the side walls are decorated with intersecting blind arcading. The front has eight bays arranged 3:3:2, with the centre bays projecting and gabled. A central planked door, with elaborate wrought iron hinges, has a semi-circular head and dogtooth and chevron moulding to the reveals, flanked by single plain fixed lights with moulded angle shafts and semi-circular heads. The first floor has two plain casement windows, each with a round head, moulded reveals and angle shafts; a small plain fixed light sits within the gable above. A wider plain casement window to the left is flanked by single fixed lights with moulded angle shafts and semi-circular heads. Similar windows are positioned to the right. Dormer windows in the eaves are topped with gabled roofs, single plain casements and round heads incorporating angle shafts. All the decorative elements in the brick construction are moulded. A matching 20th-century extension is located to the right. The interior retains a moulded brick fireplace with a semi-circular Norman arch and zigzag details in two orders. Doorways also feature zigzag semi-circular arches. The ceiling has moulded beams and plain, square-patterned joists. The stair treads are enriched with chevron moulding. Two smaller brick fireplaces, matching the ground floor fireplace, are located on the first floor.