The hall stands behind iron gates on the road between Briston and Melton Constable, a square red-brick block with a hipped roof and a balustraded parapet. It is privately owned and not open to the public, but the exterior is easy to see from the road, and the long avenue of trees leading to it is a clue to how grand the seventeenth-century landscape once was.
The associated parkland is part of the same estate, the village of Melton Constable was rebuilt by the Astleys as a model railway town in the 1880s, and the church of St Peter sits within the park. Combined, they make a striking essay on what a Norfolk estate village looked like in the heyday of country-house England.