Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
8939
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Norton Manor House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Norton
Easting
329448
Northing
266768
Street Side
Location
Reached by a long driveway from the Presteigne to Norton Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Large Jacobethan house (compare William Burn's work) dating from 1858, architect not known. Symmmetrical entrance front facing NE, with advanced centre and gabled bays. 2 storeys and attic. Free stone with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, tall chimneys with diagonal stems (some removed), gable parapets with finials. 5 windows wide, rectangular dripmoulds, mullions and transomes with small-pane glazing. Centre doorway with 4-centred arch under hood mould, opening now glazed. Lower L-shaped range to right. 5 window garden front with end gables slightly advanced. Tall 3 storey rear block with elaborate Tudor chimneys and finials at parapet level, stone mullioned windows with lying pane glazing, 2 ground floor bays, lean-to extension to left. High hipped roof to centre of house over colossal top-lit stairwell.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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