Botesdale Lodge

Botesdale Lodge is a large house built in the mid-16th century in two phases, with an extension around 1810 for T. Cay. The structure features a timber frame that is plastered, with white brick additions. It has steeply pitched roofs covered with plain tiles, although the roof of the front block is not visible. The earlier sections of the building form an L shape with two ranges of two cells each, while the five-bay front block has two additional bays at the rear, creating an irregular rectangle in plan. The house is two storeys high.

The early 19th-century facade includes a central entrance bay that projects forward, featuring a glazed segmentally pointed entrance arch with a hoodmould and an inner door flanked by pilaster strips. The outer bays are adorned with tall two-light glazing bar casements that have cusped Gothic heads and hoodmoulds. The first-floor cross casements also have hoodmoulds, along with plat bands, a coped parapet, and outer pilaster strips. One bay returns with pilaster strips. There are stacks at the rear between the outer bays, with the left stack being larger and having an early base from the 16th-century two-cell range.

To the left of the centre, there is a nine-panel studded cross entry door, above which is a shield of arms of Trinity College, Cambridge. The building features three-light casements and an octagonal bellcote with a weather vane finial at the central ridge. Inside, the entrance hall has Gothic corbelling as a cornice and a swept dogleg staircase with cast iron balusters set in a top-lit apsidal stairwell. The rest of the interior has not been inspected.