NORTON HOUSE

NORTON HOUSE, 10, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268705
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: NORTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NORTON HOUSE, 10, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268705
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: NORTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTON HOUSE, 10, WEST STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NORTON HOUSE, 10, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32370 12342

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/242 (North side) 10/02/50 No.10 Norton House

GV II

House, now with flats in rear wing. Early/mid C18 with C19 rear wing. Pale red brick, Flemish bond, with cherry red dressings; red brick rear wing. Old tiled roof, parapeted at right (east). Hipped Welsh slated roof over rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, 5 bay central staircase single-depth plan to front range; basement to rear range. First floor has 5 recessed 12-pane sash windows with painted reveals under red rubbed brick flat arches immediately below wood cornice. First-floor level plat band with cavetto mouldings. Ground floor has 4 nearly flush-set 12-pane sash windows with exposed boxes, under red rubbed brick flat arches immediately below plat band. Central doorway, with 6 raised and fielded panel door below fanlight with Gothick tracery, with panelled reveals, moulded architrave surround, and carved moulded brackets supporting moulded cornice hood. Roof with 3 box dormers with small-paned casements, above elaborate modillioned and moulded wood cornice on front elevation. Red brick chimneystack with external breast, band and 3 orange pots at right (east), rear slope has gabled casement dormer. Right flank (east) elevation has flush set 12-pane sash windows at left to ground and first floors, under rubbed brick flat arches. Long 4 bay rear wing, mid C19, altered and extended and converted to 2 flats mid C20 with sash windows first and ground floors, triple sash at right. Rear (north) elevation has 1 window, C19 sashes with divided glazing first and ground floors, and C20 small paned French windows to semi-basement. INTERIOR: ground floor modified to create new kitchen and cloakroom at east, arch originally opening into rear staircase hall now blanked off in cloakroom. East room (reduced by 1 bay to create kitchen) has bolection moulded panelling above and below dado, double cyma wood cornice, and 6-panel door in broad architrave frame. Hall has early/mid C19 plaster frieze with Greek key and scotia mouldings. Sitting room has plaster cornice with cyma moulding, modillions and egg-and-dart ornament, C19 white marble fire surround with cast-iron grate with firebasket. Dogleg plan stair above first floor in rear gabled projection,

lower part blocked off in conversion, close string, barleysugar twist on urn balusters, handrail and newel caps splayed and moulded on one side, dado with moulded rail and simple recessed panelling. Front first floor corner room, reduced in area, has panelled walls, part reset as partition, double cyma wood cornice, fire surround with bolection and roll moulding and C19 cast-iron grate. Main front bedroom has a cornice with egg-and-dart ornament and cyma moulding, bolection moulded fire surround with Dutch tiles and C19 grate and firebasket. 3 attics, 2-panel doors, west attic has mid C18 bolection moulded fireplace surround, east attic has late C19 fireplace with 'aesthetic' Japanese ornament. Roof has reused medieval timber with a rafter with imprints of mullion mortices. Cellars have brick walls and floors, rear door 2-panelled with HL-hinges, outer surround with triple keyblock. Rear hall now gives access to flats and has dogleg stair, lower flight of that described above first floor in main house. Interior of flats not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3237012342

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Legacy System number:: 461551
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.