Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn And Outbuilding

Norton Old Manor House, along with an adjoining barn and outbuilding, is a 17th century farmhouse that was later divided into three cottages. It underwent significant modernization by Parker and Unwin in 1909, which included the addition of an open-air bed-space on a balcony at the rear. The attached barn was converted for use as a badminton court. The house is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay front, featuring gabled end bays. It has a tiled roof with a rendered stack and a gabled dormer above the central entrance. The front is rendered, while the eastern gable walls are made of slightly projecting whitewashed brick, with bands at ceiling levels. There are sloping brick buttresses from 1909 on the east return elevation. The windows are modern two and three-light casements, with those in the eastern bay set in old window openings that have segmental arched heads. A modern boarded door is present. The adjoining outbuilding is weather-boarded and thatched, set back at right angles to the house.