The Priory

The Priory is a parsonage house dating to the early 16th century, with substantial extensions added in 1904. It is timber-framed and rendered, with plaintiled roofs. The building has two storeys and attics, and includes cellars within the older range.

The north front is characterised by two sets of chimneys. One is positioned just within the west gable and features four barrel shafts resting on a corbelled rectangular base. The other is located internally. There is one late 17th-century two-light casement window on the upper floor, with square leading, and three similar blocked windows. A gabled, two-storey porch, jettied on three sides, features 19th-century fluted bargeboards and a spike finial. The porch contains an Edwardian four-panel entrance door, with the top two panels glazed with Gothic heads to the lights and the bottom two panels raised and fielded. To either side of the porch are single-storey lean-tos, each with two-light casement windows with square leading.

The 1904 extension forms a large mock-timbered wing at the east end of the house. The south (garden) front displays ornate fenestration largely from this date, including two gabled dormers with fluted bargeboards and spike finials, two-light upper windows with margin pane glazing, and paired two-light ground floor windows with ornate Gothic heads to the lights. A full-height gabled porch incorporates double doors.

The original 16th-century range is located to the left and right of the entrance porch. A two-bay ground-floor room on the left features an ogee-moulded main beam with run-off stops and additional applied mouldings. The post heads are decorated with carved shields, one inscribed with “SWR RICHARD” and the other with "ALDRIH CHANU," but the date is missing. Sir Richard Aldrich was a Canon at Ixworth Priory who became incumbent of Walsham after the Dissolution of the monasteries. Small wooden shields attached to the fireplace lintel – one carved with a heart and arrows and the other with a hand bearing a heart – may have no direct connection with the house. To the right of the entrance is a two-bay room with a double roll-moulding to the main beam and cornice. Below this is the original cellar, containing a large open fireplace with a plain timber lintel. On the upper floor, one ceiling has ogee-moulded cross-beams with run-off stops, and the other is plain. The porch room has a cambered ceiling with ogee moulding. The early 19th-century main stair features stick balusters, a plain handrail, an open string, and moulded tread ends.