NORTON EDGE

NORTON EDGE, 70, NORTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347291
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: NORTON EDGE
Statutory Address:: NORTON EDGE, 70, NORTON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-02-25
Reference:: IOE01/03132/17
Rights:: © Mr Ted Ellis. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347291
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: NORTON EDGE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTON EDGE, 70, 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 EDGE, 70, 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 22782 34099

Details

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Norton Road 1. 5255 No. 70 (Norton Edge) TL 2234 5/164 II 2. House. 1913 by Bennett and Bidwell in the Arts and Crafts manner showing the influence of Baillie Scott. 1 1/2 storeys. Simple rectangular plan with projecting loggia (now enclosed to form sun room) on the south-west corner. Roughcast brick walls. Tile roof swept to 1st floor to emphasise gabled blocks. Jettied first floor in projecting bedroom wing with tiled corbels. Gabled, north-west (rear) elevation. Hipped and flat roofed dormers. 2, 3 and 4 light casements with diamond leaded lights. Two brick chimneys, one with twin shafts on rectangular base with tiled offsets. Boarded door with central narrow light. Good, complete original interior with solid joinery details, interesting elm plank doors and outstanding hand-wrought iron door furniture. Living room with recessed inglenook with beaten copper chimney hood. Exposed ceiling beads. Good oak staircase with open balusters and newel post. Bedrooms with original built-in cupboards. House designed for W J Dent the publisher, whose printing division bias established in 1906 to become one of the new factories of Letchworth.

Listing NGR: TL2278234099

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Legacy System number:: 161940
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.