Norfolk House

Norfolk House is a house located on the north side of The Street in Earl Soham. The building dates from the early to mid-16th century on the left side and from the late 16th to early 17th century on the right side. It was extended to the rear in the 19th century and again in 1982. The house is timber framed with modern panelled plasterwork and features a hipped thatched roof. It has two storeys and mid-20th century casement windows with square leaded panes. The older part of the house has a cross passage entry with a mid-20th century plank door and a thatched open porch supported by timber posts, along with an internal stack. Inside, there is good exposed timbering, particularly in the later section of the house, original newel stairs in the small rear extension, and small remnants of an ornamental plaster frieze in the main first-floor bedroom.