Norton Old Manor House, Adjoining Barn And Outbuilding

NORTON ROAD 1. 5255 (south-east side) Norton No 105 (Norton Old Manor House, adjoining barn and outbuilding) (formerly listed as Old Manor House and adjoining outbuilding TL 2234 5/14 27.5.54 II 2. C17 farmhouse, later divided into 3 cottages. Radically modernised by Parker and Unwin in 1909, which included the provision of an open-air bed-space on a balcony at the rear. The attached barn was converted for use as a badminton court. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3 bay front with end bays gabled. Tiled roof with rendered stack and gabled dormer over central entrance. Rendered front, eastern gable walls of whitewashed brick, slightly projecting, with bands at ceiling levels. Sloping brick buttresses of 1909 to east return elevation. Modern 2 and 3 light casements, those in eastern bay in old window openings with segmental arched heads. Modern boarded door. Adjoining weather-boarded and thatch outbuilding set back at right-angles to house. ('Some Houses at Letchworth' Country Life 21.12.1912; VCH Herts vol 2, p 361.)

Listing NGR: TL2289634157