Norrises

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In the entry for: NEWICK NEWICK PARK TQ 41 NW 6/117 Norrises (formerly listed as 17.3.52 Norris's)

II The entry shall be amended to read:

TQ 41 NW NEWICK RIDGELAND'S LANE 6/117 Norrises (formerly listed as Norris's and 27/9/79 under Newick Park)

GV II

House. C17 remodelling of earlier house; C18, Cl9 and 1930s additions and alterations. Timber frame with plastered infill; brick in Flemish bond, some parts with glazed headers, and C20 brick in stretcher bond; tile hanging; plain tile roofs; brick stacks. Complex plan, the oldest part centred around chimney, with addition to north, C18 addition to south-west and 1930s addition to south-east and along east side. Two storeys with cellar and loft. Plinth; 1930s doors; windows are 1930s wooden casements, some with glazing bars, apart from in C18 addition which has sashes with glazing bars, exposed sash boxes and bright red gauged brick arches, and on west side to central (oldest) part which has older small-pane casements to ground floor. North elevation: 2 bays, the left bay the return of the 1930s range; the right bay refronted, under half-hipped roof, and having Tudor-style board door with 2-light window to left on each floor and tile-hung gable; ridge stack with clustered flues. Rear: C18 section on left has external stack with offset, and tile hung gable with 2-light window to right of stack. Right return: left section set back; central section tile-hung, with projecting centre, and apparently heightened when 2-bay C18 section was added on right. Left return: 4-bay gabled 1930s range has door, third bay projecting, other bays with hipped roofs. Door and 16-pane side-sliding sash to single storey bay on left. Interior: timber framing has square panels; jowelled posts (one in kitchen with moulded bracket supporting spine beam); chamfered beams, some with bar and cyma stops; old joists and flqorboards to first floor and loft. Former Inglenook fireplace in kitchen, the bressumer raised; dining-room fireplace with imported C17 carved panels beside it; old chimney cupboards on each floor. Some old board doors. Roof over older section has chamfered timbers, staggered butts purlins, and re-used smoke-blackened rafters. C18 part on ground floor has raised and fielded panelling and doors, the room extended 1930s, some of the panelling of this date and some reset, fireplace moved over; panelled window shutters on each floor; first-floor fireplace has overpanel, cupboard on right. Cellar is lined in sandstone below oldest part, brick below C18 part.

The house is reputed to be associated with the local iron industry, the nearby Newick Park (gv) originally having been an iron-masters house.

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NEWICK NEWICK PARK 1. 5206 Norrises (formerly listed as Norris's) TQ 41 NW 6/117 17.3.52. II

2. Originally called Norris's Cottages. Now one dwelling. L-shaped building. The whole of the east range is C17 or earlier. Red brick and grey headers alternately. The west wing was added in the C18. Partly tile-hung, partly red brick. Tiled roof to the whole. Some casement windows, some sash windows with glazing bars intact. Two storeys. Five windows. Early C17 staircase, panelling and fireplaces.

Listing NGR: TQ4215219504

Legacy

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415381

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Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,

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