Norton Manor Near Sutton Scotney

Norton Manor near Sutton Scotney is a manor house built in the late 17th century with early 20th-century additions. The structure is made of brick and features a plain tiled roof with brick stacks. The original 17th-century building has a six-bay front and a five-bay side, with a two-bay wide by two-bay deep courtyard at the rear. An early 20th-century L-shaped wing adds three bays to the side and a new rear face.

The entrance front is two storeys high, with an attic and basement, and consists of six bays set on a stone plinth. The door is slightly right of centre in the third bay from the right and is sheltered by a mid-19th-century Dutch gabled porch made of blue brick with rusticated red brick quoins and stone coping. The half-glazed door features a radiating concentric fanlight. On either side of the porch are 19th-century camber-headed tripartite sash windows and the remains of 18th-century gauged brick window arches. Above, there is a moulded string course and six irregularly spaced window openings with flat gauged brick arches, five of which have 18th-century 12-pane sashes. The corners of the building are accentuated by giant brick pilasters with moulded capitals, and blue and yellow Dutch tiles are set in the necking. A wide flat timber cornice with a medallion and a 19th-century cast iron gutter featuring small lion heads at intervals adorns the roof, which is hipped and has three small flat-roofed dormer windows with two-light leaded casements.

On the garden side, the ground floor has five 12-pane sashes with Venetian shutters. The three bays on the right feature a 20th-century Doric colonnaded conservatory that leads to a large domed conservatory. The first-floor string course is made of raised brick, and above it are eight shuttered sashes. The roof has five flat-roofed dormers and two ridge stacks, with the left one dating from the 17th century, both featuring arched panels on each face and offset heads.

Inside, the hall showcases early 17th-century panelling that was formerly upstairs, along with a late 17th-century full-height open-well staircase that has turned balustrades, a moulded handrail, and dado panelling, all of which were altered in the early 20th century.