English Heritage Listing
BEVERLEY, NORWOOD, (north-west side) Norwood House (now Beverley High School for Girls) 9/279 TA0339 1.3.50 GV I
Circa 1765-70, probably built for attorney, Jonathan Midgley, twice Mayor of Beverley. Red brick with painted stone dressings. Centre block under wide pediment and 2 low angle wings terminating in small square pavilions to form forecourt. Centre block of 3 storeys , 5 windows wide. Ground floor faced in rusticated stone. Centre door has vermiculated rustication to architrave and other member, plain consoles, pulvinate frieze, 3 key blocks, cornice with bad mould broken over consoles, 8-panel door and fan light. 2 elaborate contemporary wrought iron lamp brackets. 1st floor moulded cill string with balusters inset under each window. Centre window has stone architrave broadening out at base and resting on stone plinths to form a composition with the doorway beneath. It is crowned by pulvinate frieze and cornice. Other 1st floor windows have gauged brick arches surmounted by light stone cornices. 2nd floor windows have stone cills and gauged arches. Block bracketed crowning cornice in wood. Full width triangular pediment contains a cartouche framing a bull's eye. From this pediment husks trail down to the cornice. 3 plinths to pediment, possibly originally supporting urns now missing. I side wing has been completely rebuilt, the other to the west of 1 storey has 2 windows facing south and east respectively, set in arched recesses. Stone strings and moulded cope to parapet, with balusters inset over the windows, stone base. Terminal pavilion of 2 storeys has Venetian window in stone set in recessed arch facing east into the forecourt.1 plain window in arched recess faces south. Stone string and base. Roof hipped to centre is slated and has been raised 3 feet with little disfigurement. Garden front is a simpler version of south front with wood cornice, fines stone doorcase and an elaborate glazed door. Library block of c. 1825, built for W Beverley, the fittings being of Grecian style. Interior: possesses a fine staircase with carved tread ends, and some notable stucco work and Chimneypieces. The Drawing Room has an important Rococo ceiling based on Colon Campbell's design for a ceiling for Compton Place, Eastbourne. Palladian' overdoor and marble mantel with stucco overmantel containing a composition of cherubs' heads. The stucco work is in the style of Joseph Page of Hull. The doorcases are derived from a plate in Kent's 'Designs of Inigo Jones'. A remarkable house of modest dimensions.
BEVERLEY, NORWOOD, (north-west side) TA 0339 9/280 GV 1 Gates, gate piers and railings to Norwood \House 2 pairs of stone gate piers of C. 1780, rusticated and with square crowning blocks, over modillions inset, and supporting enriched balls on moulded bases, ball finials to eastern piers missing at time of resurvey. Good wrought iron railings and 2 pairs of gates.
