Norton Conyers House

Norton Conyers, GB

Norton Conyers House is a grade II* listed late medieval manor house with Stuart and Georgian additions, in North Yorkshire, England, some 4 miles (7 km) north of Ripon. The frontage has distinctive Dutch-style gables and is thought to be the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. Bront

ë visited Norton Conyers in 1839 as governess to the then-tenants' grandchildren. The house has a family legend of a madwoman confined in the attics. It has an 18th-century garden surrounding an Orangery. It is built in two storeys with a four-bay frontage to a square floor plan of brick with a Westmorland slate roof. The nearby stable block is also grade II listed.

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