Blo' Norton Hall

Blo' Norton Hall is a country house, now divided into two properties, dating to the mid-16th century with a significant enlargement in 1585. The house is timber framed with rendered wattle and daub walls, and brick gables, and has a plain tiled roof. It originally had an E-plan with a through passage. The building is two storeys high with a dormer attic.

The north front has three bays in the centre, flanked by shallow gabled cross wings. A central door is sheltered by a hood-moulded architrave, flanked by projecting window bays containing 18th-century three-light cross casements on both floors. Above the door is a similar window, and the facade has three random three-light, hollow-chamfered mullion windows. There are overhanging eaves and a gabled roof with three dormers, each with 18th-century leaded casements. The cross wings have projecting window bays with pediments above the first-floor windows, which also have 18th-century casements on both floors. Upper level windows are flanked by single three-light, timber mullioned windows to the right and left. Attic casements have leaded lights.

The west front exposes the timber frame, which is large with intermediate close studding. A large external stepped stack is located to the left, with two octagonal flues on bell bases. There is scattered fenestration of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries, mostly with leaded lights and original glass. One gabled dormer has an 18th-century casement. The south gable is of brick in English bond, with a stepped parapet and an internal stack. A similar south gable exists on the east wing, forming cross wings to the original main range. Two large stepped stacks are located to the rear of the north range, and there are various altered 18th-century windows.

The east front has exposed timbering towards the north front and a stepped external stack bearing the inscription "E.H.B. 1585" in a terracotta panel, above a rebuilt flue of 1847. The front has a staggered disposition of 18th-century leaded casements and two three-light, hollow-chamfered mullioned windows to the first floor, above a gabled dormer.

Internally, the original north range retains many doors from the Elizabethan period. The through passage is intact to the east of a 16th-century screen, featuring two doorways, the one to the south now blocked with panelling. This passage is articulated by seven fluted and reeded pilasters supporting a moulded rail above vestigial Ionic capitals. The rail includes a string of applied guttae under seven consoles above the pilasters, each with raised floriated decoration. Panelling is located above the rail to the ceiling. The hall has a central chamfered bridging beam and moulded brick fireplaces with four-centred arches. A north-west ground floor room has a similarly large fireplace with a panelled overmantel and reeded frieze. The west wing contains a fine 17th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, square newel posts with ball finials, and a chamfered handrail. A first-floor sitting room has a four-centred fireplace below a panelled overmantel with figured ends. The roofs are of clasped purlins and collars, with 19th-century repairs.