Aelred House

Aelred House, formerly known as the Franciscan Friary, is an 18th-century red brick house located on the north side of Market Place in Little Walsingham. The building features a moulded brick string course, a moulded brick modillion cornice, and a parapet. It has a steep black-glazed pantile roof with gabled ends and consists of two storeys and an attic, arranged in a 2:4:2 bay configuration, with the central four bays projecting slightly.

The windows are sashes with thick glazing bars set in exposed moulded casings, and they are topped with flat rubbed brick arches, although one first-floor window is blocked. There are two doorways: the left-hand doorway is framed by a heavy moulded doorcase with a panelled frieze and a moulded hood supported by shaped brackets, leading to a fielded panel door. The right-of-centre doorway also has a moulded doorcase, a rectangular fanlight, and a moulded hood with a panelled soffit on shaped brackets, leading to another fielded panel door. The exterior includes two square-section downpipes with rainwater heads featuring cornices and lions rampant. There are three flat-roofed dormers with cornices and sashes with glazing bars.

At the left-hand end (west), there is a small 18th-century red brick wing that is set back and has a splayed corner. This wing features a fielded panel door with a sash window above, and it has a hipped pantile roof with a brick string course. Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters, a moulded rail, and turned newels, along with a round-headed stair sash with glazing bars facing the rear. One ground floor room has a wall with fielded panelling and two niches on either side of the fireplace, which are adorned with fluted pilasters and round shell heads, with one niche converted into a doorway.