Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
6211
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/1951
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Norton House, including garden wall to street
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213159
Northing
200880
Street Side
W
Location
Situated on the W side of The Norton some 110m N of the junction with St John's Hill.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 sustantial town house, probably altered in mid C19. Norton House was occupied in 1920s by C F E Allen MP JP (b 1847) former Recorder of Rangoon and Liberal MP for Pembroke Boroughs.
Exterior
House, painted stucco with slate roof behind parapet. Double pile with 2 chimney stacks each end and parapet between. Two-storey, six-window elevation. Described in 1977 as 5-window with cornice and stone band. Now 6-bay with plain stuccoed band below parapet. Unusual long French windows to first floor with Gothic glazing to top lights. Ironwork balconies to two end windows. Ground floor has 4 hornless 12-pane sashes, 2 each side of door, originally central to facade. Door has been altered since 1977 when it had a wood hood. Now recessed 4-panel door, 2 glazed panels with Tudor-arched heads, in timber surround with panelled pilasters, frieze with Tudor-arched panels and moulded cornice. Right end bay has stone Tudor-arched carriage entrance possibly remodelled since 1977. Right end wall is rendered with 12-pane first floor sash. Left end also rendered has lean-to with blank stuccoed end wall to street. Beyond to left, a length of rebuilt stuccoed wall connects to white-painted rubble stone garden wall that runs on to corner of No 32. This has central blocked 4-centred carriage arch with brick voussoirs.
Interior
Elaborate early C19 interiors of Tudor Gothic character. Large double-return stair with turned moulded newels. Doorways with Tudor arches, basically classical doorcases with Gothick detailing, panelled doors; period cornices, simple bull's-eye roses. Some heavily classical wooden fire-surrounds with early C19 iron grates.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as a substantial late Georgian detached house of Tudor Gothic character retaining well-preserved interiors.
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