Norman Villa and attached garden walls

Norman Villa is a house dating from approximately 1830 to 1840, likely designed by Paxton and Robertson. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone and ashlar, with a fishscale tiled roof. The building is executed in the Norman style, featuring steeply pitched gables with moulded copings, plain kneelers, stepped corbels, square finials, and ashlar ridge and gable stacks. A distinctive feature is the moulded first floor and eaves bands formed as arched corbel tables with roundels.

The south east elevation has a projecting gabled bay window with an arched corbel table and parapet. It contains Caernarvon-arched windows. Above is a round-arched Norman-style window framed by a single order of columns with cushion capitals, and within the arch, three orders of hollow mouldings with roll moulding. The window is a two-light casement with a round-arched overlight. To the left is a large blind round arch, and to the right, a flat-roofed square porch with open round-arches on two sides, supported by a circular column with a scalloped capital and square responds. It has a zigzag and moulded arch and a panelled door with decorative wrought iron hinges, topped by a semi-circular overlight. In the north east angle is a square tower; its lower part has a moulded bracketed band forming the sill for tall blind Caernarvon arches. A chamfered band is located at the base of the top stage, which has an intersecting blind arcade with Caernarvon-arched windows. The pyramid roof is topped with decorative features. A gabled bay to the north east has a stepped tripartite window on the ground floor, with a Caernarvon arch over the central light. A continuous sill band runs along this elevation. A Norman-style window above echoes the style of the south east window.

Attached to the north west is a tall, fortress-like curtain wall with pilaster buttresses and pyramid caps, enclosing the rear courtyard. The interior includes an open-string stick baluster staircase featuring carved tread ends, a turned newel, and a ramped handrail.

Norman Villa was built as part of a picturesque model village commissioned by the Sixth Duke of Devonshire and executed by Paxton.