274, Norwich Road

1. NORWICH ROAD

5379 No 274

TM 1545

6/503

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1. House. Designed 1912 by Arnold B Mitchell for Thomas Parkington local builder; the winning design of the Daily Mail Ideal Villa competition of 1912. Red brick concrete decorative panels, plaintile roofs. Square on plan, the first and second floors contained within steeply pitcned roofs creating cruciform plan to upper floor. Two storeys with attic. Each facade comprising a two storey gable set over the ground floor. Central square brick stack with oversailing cap and tall pots. Symmetrical roadside elevation. Heavy rusticated clasping pilasters at angles,surmounted by deeply oversailing and dentilled cornices at ground floor eaves level. 2 bays of 5 canted mullioned lights, each of 2 x 4 panes originally, now with single upper hung openings to central light. To first floor a pair of 2 - light 2 x 3 paned timber casements each with large rectangular concrete apron with geometric design of 4 x 4 linked raised rectangles. Original design shows aprons decorated with swags. The two windows are framed by shallow pilaster-like brick architraves, the inner strips rising to frame a single attic window of the same design. Entrance to centre of symmetrical left hand return, with single first and second floor windows. Thought to be the only extant example of Daily Mail's competition.

Listing NGR: TM1523845561