The Bury

The Bury is a Grade II* listed building, originally a Royal Manor House dating from the early 13th century. It is located to the east of the moated site of a pre-conquest Norman castle and is believed to have left the crown as a gift around 1260. The house features a timber-framed and plastered construction with an aisled hall, a cross entrance passage, and a buttery at the west end.

In the 16th to 17th centuries, a floor and chimney stack were added, and the south front was extended in the 17th century to include three large gables. A smaller gabled wing projects from the center gable, jettied over the entrance doorway, which has an old boarded door. The building has casement windows and a roof that is tiled and slopes down to ground storey window level at the rear.

Much of the original frame is still visible on the interior, including one framed truss with long passing braces and open lapped joints that remains almost intact, while the others have mostly been cut away.