310 Litchfield Road

The house stands on a ridge south of Norfolk's village center, and its veranda and balconies face out over the woods to the north. It is the Tudor Revival house at 310 Litchfield Road, set on 43.8 acres, with six bedrooms and 6,766 square feet inside.

The National Register file calls it Hillside. It was built in 1908 for Helen Hartley Jenkins, a Remington Arms heiress, to the designs of the New York architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor, who is credited with more than thirty buildings in Norfolk, most of them summer houses. The listing names it one of his finest. The register listing followed in 1982. Around the turn of this century the artist and designer Arden Harriman Mason renovated and enlarged it, working from designs by Richard Allen.

The basement and first floor are fieldstone; the floors above are half-timber and stucco. Inside, the great hall rises 40 feet to a timbered ceiling, with a walk-in fireplace and an inglenook. The grounds hold a guest house, a barn, formal gardens and a pond.