Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1954. Farmhouse, barn, outbuilding.
Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- tired-basalt-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1954
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- TL 228 341
- Coordinates
- 51.99229, -0.21151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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