Norman House

NORMAN HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1274365
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:
Norman House
Statutory Address:
NORMAN HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1274365
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1988
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
Norman House
Statutory Address 1:
NORMAN HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NORMAN HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Yaxley
National Grid Reference:
TL 16381 91110

Details

In the entry for

YAXLEY NORMAN CROSS Norman House 20/190

The address shall be amended to read:

TL 1691 YAXLEY LONDON ROAD Norman Cross 20/190 Norman House

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YAXLEY NORMAN CROSS TL 1691 20/190 Norman House GV II House formerly the Norman Cross Barrack Master's House. 1796-7 with late C19 alterations. Painted brick with limestone dressings. Slated roofs. Three storeys and half basement. Main entrance approached by balustraded stone steps and C19 verandah with C18 pedimented doorcase. South elevation of five bays with centre bay infilled; recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows reduced at third storey to six panes. Two square planned stacks to north and south breaking plain parapet continuous to each elevation. Shaped flanking screen walls termate with small urns. The Norman Cross Barracks were built to accommodate the French prisioners of war during the Napoleonic wars; they were dismantled in 1816, the master's house is the only building to survive and is illustrated in a drawing c.1810.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p241

Listing NGR: TL1638191110

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
415403
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 241

Legal

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

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