Royal Falcon Inn

The Royal Falcon Inn is a hotel and public house located on High Street in Lowestoft. It dates from the mid-16th century and has undergone alterations, particularly in the 20th century. The building is constructed of tarred knapped flint and features a roof made of black-glazed pantiles. It stands two stories tall with a dormer attic and has a six-window range of 2/2 late 19th-century horned sashes. The ground floor previously had similar windows and a doorway in the fourth bay from the left, which is now under a pediment supported by scrolled consoles. While the doorway remains, the original doorcase has been removed, and the north window has been replaced by a late 20th-century recessed entrance. The building has overhanging eaves beneath the gabled roof and features four 20th-century flat-topped dormers with 3/3 sashes that replaced a pair of 19th-century dormers. A ridge stack is positioned left of center.

The rear elevation has a two-storey extension to the south with 20th-century windows of mixed types, a dentil eaves cornice, and a roof covered in red pantiles. This extension is situated at the angle formed by a crosswing that is also two stories tall with a dormer attic and a hipped roof, featuring 20th-century windows.

Inside, the ground floor includes multiple roll-moulded bridging beams and wall plates, with joists that have rolled edges and stylized vine trail relief carving, all dating from the mid-16th century and of high quality. A bressumer above the south fireplace, which is from the 20th century, is dated 1551, likely accurately. The first floor features sunk-quadrant bridging beams and wall plates with tongue stops, and the northeast room has a timber carved cornice with simplified guilloche decoration, although this room has been subdivided in the 20th century. The main roof, dating from the mid-18th century, includes chamfered principals, chamfered cambered collars, taper tenoned lower butt purlins, and continuous upper purlins. The roof of the crosswing is also from the 18th century and features two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins and collars.