Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Norton Post Office
Location
By the roadside opposite St Andrews Church.
Broad Class
Communications
History
Partly late medieval, rebuilt C18/early C19, later alterations include the demolition of L-plan wing (containing reading-room) in the early 1970s.
Exterior
Simple 2-storey rendered walls with whitewashed rubble to rear, wallheads raised, timber wallplates, slate roof (lower to rear) with bargeboards, 2 rubble stacks (one with weathercourse extended to right, the other originally in mid roof).
2 windows offset to right, modern frames, 2 doors under cambered heads, assorted openings to rear. Later, one storey extension to right.
Interior
The interior retains half of a late medieval open-hall with one cruck-truss remaining against a later chimney. This open-cruck has cusped queen-struts in the apex although the top of the collar remains plain. Below the collar. the plain chamfer from the arch brace is carried on to the cruck blade.
A second truss, a partition-cruck, is square-framed with a single doorway on the E originally (the E stud has been moved away from the blade). The crucks carried 2 purlins each side, original lengths of these showing lap-joints on the back for wind braces. A large single nook has recently been uncovered downstairs left under a massive timber lintol.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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