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Georgian House of Norton Place, Bishop Norton

Full description

The park and house of Norton Place were created de novo in the late 1770s over part of the former open West Field. {2}
Norton Place is set on the edge of plantations in former parkland. The house was built for John Harrison MP by John Carr in 1776, and is one of his best small designs. It has a stone south front of seven bays and has two storeys, the three centre bays more widely spaced beneath a pediment. It also has triangular pediments to the ground-floor windows and flat entablatures to the upper ones. The entrance is a Doric porch against a tripartite motif. Above it is an Ionic Venetian window, and above that in the pediment is a circular light garlanded with foliage and tied up with a bow. The side fronts have deep canted bays, a favourite Carr device, topped with urns. The one on the west side was raised in 1830 by Lewis Vulliamy, who also added the porch to this front. The plan is the familiar neo-classical layout of rooms off a top-lit central staircase hall, oval here, with a curved cantilevered stone staircase and an s-scroll iron balustrade, a variation on the balustrade of Inigo Jones's Tulip Stair at the Queen's House, Greenwich. There is a galleried upper landing. The main rooms with the canted bays have opposite canted ends making them octagonal. The dining room in addition has large niches. The drawing room has a delicate oval-pattern plaster ceiling with inset Wedgwood plaques depicting antique heads. All the rooms have good chimney pieces. The stables make a courtyard to the rear. Three-bay arcaded centre and wings. There are also lodges with screen walls, urns, and rusticated piers. {1}
For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {4}

Norton Place, Bishop Norton. Extant 18th century farmstead. Regular courtyard of U plan. The farmhouse is detached from the main working complex. Located within a Church and/or Manor farm group. Large modern sheds are located to the side of the site. {5}

<1> Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram, 1989, Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition), 2nd Rev Edn p148 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1062.

<2> P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn, 1991, Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire, ARCHIVE NOTES (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1063.

<3> Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram, 1989, Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition), 2nd Rev Edn PLATE 93 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1062.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/1 (Index). SLI5534.

<5> English Heritage, 2015, English Heritage Farmsteads Project, 2105 (Digital Archive). SLI15702.

Monument Types

• FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD? to 2050 AD)
• COUNTRY HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1770 AD to 2050 AD)

Protected Status

• Listed Building

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