Anstey Bury

Anstey Bury is a house dating from around 1600, with a southern range added in the late 18th century and a mid-19th century brick facade on the northern front and around the eastern crosswing. The building features a timber frame set on a brick sill, which is cased in red brick adorned with a black brick diaper pattern and white brick quoins and dressings. The southern range is roughcast, and the roofs are covered with red tiles, using interlocking tiles for the southern range.

This large T-plan house has two storeys and attics, with a narrow two-storey parallel rear range facing north. It includes a gabled eastern crosswing that features a large 17th-century chimney at the junction of the wing, which has two diagonally set square shafts. There is also a large 18th-century external west gable chimney with tumbled brick offsets and a small internal chimney in the rear range.

The irregular northern front has a plinth and a projecting gabled wing to the left, with box eaves. The recessed sash windows generally have 6/6 panes, except for a small sash window in the gable that lights the attic of the crosswing. The upper floor has four sash windows, with two to the right of the door and a canted bay window to the left. Access is via a battened door that is reached by four stone steps.

The plastered rear elevation has three windows wide, with a door in the middle. The flush box sashes here have 3/3 panes, and there is a four-panel half-glazed door beneath a triangular tiled hood. A yellow brick chimney with red brick top courses is also present.

Inside, the main range features axial floor beams, and the crossbeams are chamfered and offset from the wall posts in the three-bay eastern crosswing, which has back-to-back inglenooks. The roof of the hall range has clasped purlins on collar trusses, and the plastered attics in the roofspace appear to have always been without dormer windows.