Higher up Steep Hill than the Jew's Hiuse, and on the E side of the street stands the Norman House, formerly called Aaron the Jew's House (Pevsner (1964)). It has 2 storeys and a basement, and is built of roughly shaped limestone blocks. On the ground floor of the W facade facing the street are, from N to S, a small window, then a bow window with a shop door to the S. In the centre is a 12thc doorway with a shallow projecting porch, then a flat shop window. and a length of unfenestrated wall which terminates at the SW corner of the house. On the upper storey, above the small window is a slightly larger double casement, then a tall sash window. Above the central doorway is a wider sash window, then a twin opening neo-Romanesque window. Again the S bay is unfenestrated. Thus the only Romanesque feature on the facade is the central doorway.

This house is commonly known as the “Norman House” and has traditionally been called “Aaron the Jew’s House” in reference to Aaron of Lincoln, Jewish financier who lived in Lincoln circa 1166-1186 AD and was a major creditor of Henry II, specialising in financing the building of monastic houses including Lincoln Minster, Peterborough Abbey and St Albans. There is no evidence to link this Norman house with Aaron of Lincoln, reputedly the richest man in England of his time (Nath (2021)). In 1878 there was a general restoration campaign conducted on this house.

The use of an ornament resembling ballflower is most unusual for the twelfth- century date given this doorway as such decoration is most commonly associated with later medieval sculpture of the fourteenth century. In addition, the placement of a ballflower on the capital in the center of its face is problematic and suggests that this part of the door may be a post-medieval fabrication. On the other hand, the label-stops look like good twelfth-century material. In particular, the R side label stop in the form of a corbel head is very similar in terms of the treatment of hair to a sculpted head from Lincoln Cathedral.