Rosedene With Simonds Of Botesdale

Rosedene with Simonds of Botesdale is a house with offices, dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is roughcast and rendered, with steeply pitched roofs covered in plain tiles and machine tiles, along with some glazed pantiles. The building has a long main range consisting of two cells, with a slightly projecting two-bay parlour cross wing on the left, a two-cell unit house behind the parlour, and a slightly projecting cross wing addition at the service end on the right, all forming a large L shape on the plan. The structure is two storeys tall.

On the ground floor of the main range, there are half-glazed doors to the left and right of the centre in lobby and cross entry positions, with an architrave and a bracketed hood to the left, and pilasters to the right. There is also a 20th-century three-light casement window and a garage. The first floor features two 4:4 pane architraved sash windows with hoodboards, and an early 19th-century timber triglyph frieze beneath a modillioned cornice. The main axial ridge stack to the left of the main range, between the hall and parlour, has three conjoined hexagonal shafts, with one additional shaft on the left.

The parlour cross wing on the left has French windows on the ground floor and a 4:4 pane sash window on the first floor, with exposed plates and double purlins. The later cross wing on the right has a shallow pitch to the roof and 20th-century openings, with a further remodelled bay set back to the right. The unit house at the rear left has an entrance on the return, a central ridge stack, an external stack at the rear, and was reroofed in the 19th century. The rear of the main range has varying rooflines, with the service bay raised in the 19th century and catslide roofed lean-to outshuts behind the hall and over the stairs behind the stack.

Inside, the frame is concealed. The hall features cased crossed binding beams, and there is a small late 17th-century staircase behind the stack with splat barley sugar balusters, a broad moulded handrail, and capped square newel posts. The unit house has a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, some close studding, and a chamfered wall plate. The garage buildings attached to the right end and front are not of special interest.