Norton Manor, Walls Enclosing Forecourt, And Terraces On South East Front

Norton Manor is a country house, now serving as an officers' mess, built in 1843 by Henry Roberts for Charles Moel Welman. The building features buff bricks with black headers arranged in a deeper pattern, stone dressings, quoins, slate roofs, coped verges, and brick lateral stacks on the facade, located at the end bay on the right and between the second and third bays on the left. It has a long range that lies roughly from northwest to southeast, with a forecourt at the entrance front and terraced gardens on the southeast front. The design is in the Tudor Gothic style and consists of two storeys with an attic, featuring an eight-bay garden front that has gabled first bays. The fourth and fifth bays are gabled, with a dormer above the entrance and a 20th-century dormer on the left. The windows are mullioned and transomed, set under hood moulds, and there is a coat of arms on the lateral stack to the right. The entrance, located in the sixth bay on the left, has a single-storey gabled porch with a moulded four-centred arch opening, a Tudor-style panelled inner door with a wicket door, and a leaded-light window above. The garden front includes canted bays and lateral stacks. The terrace features ashlar lattice work and a buttressed retaining wall, which returns on the southeast front with a similar structure below, but without a retaining wall, and includes stone seats. A dwarf wall in a similar style encloses the forecourt.

Inside, the hall is panelled with a compartment ceiling and an arcade of Tudor arch heads. The dining room is also panelled and includes a built-in sideboard in a bay with a Tudor arch head, a lozenge plaster ceiling, a fireplace in a similar Tudor Gothic style, and a dog-leg stair. Henry Roberts is particularly noted for designing model dwellings for the working classes.