NORTON OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING

NORTON OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING, 105, NORTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295753
Date first listed:: 27-May-1954
List Entry Name:: NORTON OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING
Statutory Address:: NORTON OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING, 105, NORTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295753
Date first listed:: 27-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: NORTON OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: NORTON OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING, 105, NORTON ROAD

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 OLD MANOR HOUSE, ADJOINING BARN AND OUTBUILDING, 105, NORTON ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 22896 34157

Details

NORTON ROAD 1. 5255 (south-east side) Norton No 105 (Norton Old Manor House, adjoining barn and outbuilding) (formerly listed as Old Manor House and adjoining outbuilding TL 2234 5/14 27.5.54 II 2. C17 farmhouse, later divided into 3 cottages. Radically modernised by Parker and Unwin in 1909, which included the provision of an open-air bed-space on a balcony at the rear. The attached barn was converted for use as a badminton court. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3 bay front with end bays gabled. Tiled roof with rendered stack and gabled dormer over central entrance. Rendered front, eastern gable walls of whitewashed brick, slightly projecting, with bands at ceiling levels. Sloping brick buttresses of 1909 to east return elevation. Modern 2 and 3 light casements, those in eastern bay in old window openings with segmental arched heads. Modern boarded door. Adjoining weather-boarded and thatch outbuilding set back at right-angles to house. ('Some Houses at Letchworth' Country Life 21.12.1912; VCH Herts vol 2, p 361.)

Listing NGR: TL2289634157

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Legacy System number:: 161883
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 361
'Country Life' in 21 December, (1912)

Legal

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