Botolph House with Front Railings

Botolph House is a house located on The Street in Botesdale, dating from the early to mid 17th century and remodeled in the early 19th century for R. Sword, as indicated by 'RS 1824' on an outbuilding that is not listed. The house features a timber frame with a pebbledashed exterior and a steeply pitched hipped slate roof. It has a three-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys tall with a five-window front.

On the ground floor, there is an entrance to the right of centre in a 19th-century gabled porch, which includes a part raised six-panelled architraved door, wavy bargeboards, and small stained glass round-headed lights in the returns. The centre features a 20th-century canted bay window with four, twelve, and four lights, while the rest of the ground floor has architraved glazing bar sashes. The first floor has three six-pane architraved sashes and an eaves cornice. There is an axial ridge stack to the right of centre, with its cap rebuilt in white brick, and an early 19th-century ridge stack to the left of centre.

The right end of the house has an early 19th-century ground floor bow window for the parlour, which features three glazing bar casements with blind boxes, a projecting cornice with wave moulding, and a leaded semi-conical head. The first floor has a two-light casement. At the rear, there are mixed casements, a boarded door at the service end, and a lean-to on the right with a 16-pane sash.

Inside, the house has indented stop-chamfered axial binding beams, early 19th-century reeding in the parlour, and a double butt purlin roof. Attached to the front left of the house are early 19th-century iron railings on a low white brick plinth, featuring colonnettes with acorn finials, panels with wrought iron anthemion ornament, and spear-headed rails. The flanking front gate has chamfered timber posts with moulded caps and acorn finials. To the right, the railings curve around the bow and include a second gate, with openwork piers featuring quatrefoil ornament and moulded caps with acorn finials.