Norwood Park And The West Wing

Country house dating from around 1763, altered in the late 19th century, designed in the style of John Carr of York. The building is constructed in brick with stone dressings and features hipped slate roofs.

The main structure comprises a central 3-storey block flanked by hipped 2-storey wings, with single 2-storey pavilions beyond. The composition is finished with a plinth, first-floor band, modillion eaves, pediment, low parapets, and two ridge stacks.

The former entrance front, now serving as the garden front, features glazing bar sash windows with keystone lintels to the windows. A central Venetian window sits within a full-height round-headed recess, flanked by two windows. Above are five smaller windows. The centrepiece is a moulded doorcase with pediment on scroll brackets, containing a half-glazed door and fanlight. On either side of the doorcase are small flanking windows, with two further windows beyond. At each side of the front is a canted single-storey bay window with three sashes. Each wing has a side wall stack and three windows. The left wing includes a French window flanked to the left by a round-headed window. The right wing has a late 19th-century full-width addition incorporating a gabled projecting conservatory. Each pavilion has a central stack and a central round-headed window set within a full-height round-headed recess, with a simple Venetian window with round heads below. The right pavilion has a set-back addition to the right with a single ground-floor window.

The former rear elevation, now the entrance front, displays brick bands and no pediment. A central canted 2-storey porch with three windows is flanked by two similar windows, with five smaller windows above. The central pedimented doorcase contains a panelled door and fanlight, flanked by single windows with two further windows beyond. Each wing has three windows. The left wing has a panelled door with fanlight to the left. The pavilions replicate the fenestration arrangement of the garden front. Windows to the entrance front are finished with rubbed brick heads.

The interior contains a square stairwell with coved ceiling, modillion and dentilled cornices, and pyramidal roof light. The main stair is constructed of stone and timber with cantilever construction, iron stick balusters, and a ramped and scrolled handrail. Ground-floor doors feature keystoned round heads; first-floor doors are topped with cornices.

The former entrance hall, now used as a study, has an Adam-style plaster ceiling with central oval panel and matching fireplace. The entrance hall itself features an enriched frieze and two moulded stone fireplaces. The drawing room has a modillion cornice and enriched marble fireplace. The library, dating from around 1880, features a coved ceiling, fitted bookcases, and an enriched pine fireplace with drapes. A cantilevered stone dogleg rear stair has shaped iron balusters and a ramped handrail. The main first-floor rooms throughout have moulded cornices and Classical-style fireplaces.