Alma Cottage Norbury House

Alma Cottage and Norbury House is a house that has been converted into a house and cottage, dating from around 1600 and altered in the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with a facade of painted brick and a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building has three bays facing southeast, with stacks located to the left and at the rear of the middle bay, and two rear wings. It is two storeys high, with attics and a cellar.

The left bay and a short section of the house to the left make up Alma Cottage (No. 115). The cellar of this bay is accessed from No. 113 (St. Andrews). The remainder of the building comprises Norbury House (No. 117). On the ground floor, there is one 19th-century splayed bay and two late 18th-century three-light casements with modern glazing and 19th-century plaster hood-moulds. The first floor features one similar casement and two late 18th-century three-light windows, each with wrought iron casements, moulded mullions, saddle bars, rectangular leading, and a twisted stay bar. There are also three 19th-century casements in gabled dormers. The building has a gambrel roof that is half-hipped at the right end, a 20th-century six-panel door with a pedimented doorcase, and moulded coving under the projecting eaves. Modern wrought iron brackets support the gutter, and one roof at the rear is covered with red clay pantiles.

Inside, the two right bays feature chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. In the middle bay, the plain joists of square section are exposed, showing unusual housed abutments and central tenons. The posts are jowled, and straight tension braces are trenched inside heavy studding. There is an early 19th-century staircase with an oval-section handrail and stick balusters located in Norbury House. The ceiling over the middle first-floor room has a unique construction, where the main joists form a cross and plain joists are arranged diagonally across the quarters, resembling a spider's web, with chisel-cut assembly marks. The gambrel roof is an alteration from the 18th century.