Ardeley Bury (700 Metres To West Of Church)

Country house, dating from the later 17th century, with later alterations and extensions. Originally an L-shaped brick house facing east, built on an ancient moated site for the Chauncy family as tenants of St Paul's Cathedral. It was extended in the late 18th century to form a U-shaped house facing south in a classical style. Around 1820, it was remodelled and extended as a Gothick castellated mansion facing east, incorporating a new Great Hall to the north of the entrance. The house is constructed from plum brick, Portland stone, and stucco dressings, with random limestone rubble for a round tower on the south side, and old red tile roofs.

The irregular L-shaped house has two storeys and attics, entered from the east. A tall, single-storey Great Hall is located to the right with two pointed Y-tracery windows and a canted embattled bay window. To the left, a gabled entrance bay features octagonal corner buttresses and finials, a clock face in the gable, and a canted oriel above a Tudor-arched moulded doorway, flanked by narrow pointed windows. A two-storey range to the left includes a canopied niche between the upper windows, above a tall three-light window. The south front features brick octagonal corner towers and a central stone round tower, all with battlements and false machicolations. The towers, the range to the left of the round tower, and the central part of the range to the right, all date from circa 1820.

A 17th-century square kitchen block with coursed flint pebble facing is located at the northwest. Two large, formerly external, chimneys to the 17th-century north range have tall octagonal shafts with moulded japs and bases. The lower rooms in the 17th and 18th-century north and east ranges retain butt-purlin roof structures.

The interior of the Great Hall is remarkably complete in the Gothick style, featuring a hammer-beam open roof, bay window, chimney piece, and a minstrels' gallery. A long rib-vaulted passage is finished in plasterwork, with a squared stone floor featuring black marble dots. A staircase in a late 17th-century style, dating from the late 19th century, is located near the round tower. There are panelled rooms from the 18th and early 19th centuries. A cast iron fireback bearing heraldic motifs, originally from Cromer Hall, is also present.