Description

1. NORWICH ROAD

5379 No 274

TM 1545

6/503

II

2. House. Designed 1912 by Arnold B Mitchell for Thomas Parkington local builder;
the winning design of the Daily Mail Ideal Villa competition of 1912. Red brick
concrete decorative panels, plaintile roofs. Square on plan, the first and second floors
contained within steeply pitcned roofs creating cruciform plan to upper floor. Two
storeys with attic. Each facade comprising a two storey gable set over the ground
floor. Central square brick stack with oversailing cap and tall pots. Symmetrical
roadside elevation. Heavy rusticated clasping pilasters at angles,surmounted by
deeply oversailing and dentilled cornices at ground floor eaves level. 2 bays of
5 canted mullioned lights, each of 2 x 4 panes originally, now with single upper
hung openings to central light. To first floor a pair of 2 - light 2 x 3 paned
timber casements each with large rectangular concrete apron with geometric design
of 4 x 4 linked raised rectangles. Original design shows aprons decorated with
swags. The two windows are framed by shallow pilaster-like brick architraves, the
inner strips rising to frame a single attic window of the same design. Entrance to
centre of symmetrical left hand return, with single first and second floor windows.
Thought to be the only extant example of Daily Mail's competition.

Listing NGR: TM1523845561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530422

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)