Anna Sewell House

Anna Sewell House is an 18th-century brick house with a black pantile roof, located on Spixworth Road, Old Catton. Originally listed as Beechwood, it has an "L" shape, with the eastern wing slightly lower. The house is attached to an adjoining building. The east facade has three bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and segmental brick arches over the ground-floor openings. The south facade has two bays, with a five-panel part-glazed door set within a timber doorcase featuring a moulded architrave, key block, and a projecting pediment on consoles. Sash windows with glazing bars are also present on the south facade, along with a first-floor casement window to the right. The house has a rendered plinth, timber bracketed eaves, parapet gables with brick kneelers and stone copings, and end stacks. Axial stacks are located on the north and south ranges, and at the roof intersection. Anna Sewell, author of “Black Beauty,” lived at the house from 1867 to 1878.