The Bury (EHER 127)

An early timber aisled hall, the construction of which suggests a 13th century date. It is a Royal Manor House.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: An early timber aisled hall, the construction of which suggests a 13th century date. <1> The surviving elements comprise a storied service bay with a lodged floor, a spere truss with moulded capitals and a single-bayed open hall. A further solar bay was probably destroyed many years ago. Late 13th century date suggested. See plan in <2>. Originally an early 13th century Royal Manor House, which seems to have left the crown as the result of a gift in about 1260. Aisled hall, cross entrance passage and buttery at the west end. Much of the original frame exposed inside and one framed truss survives almost intact. The others have mostly been cut away. Floor and chimneystack inserted in 16th-17th centuries. The south front was built out in the 17th century with three large gables. Smaller gabled wing projects on the centre gable, jettied over the entrance doorway. House is medieval in origin. <3> 1994. Dendrochronological analysis. Aisled hall with archaic features. Arcade plates and post produced date of 1304. Published EAH 27 1996, 288. <4> A handsome gabled 17th century house. <5> 17th century house according to RCHM. <6> See also: <7> <8> The Bury, Grade II*. Originally a Royal Manor House of early 13th century date, built to the east of the moated site of a pre-Conquest castle (TL 43 SE 15). It is a timber-framed and plastered house with an aisled hall, with 16th to 17th century alterations. <9> See also: <10>