Lakenheath Hotel

The Lakenheath Hotel, located at No. 122 High Street, is a hotel and shop that was originally a house. It dates from the mid-18th century, with a likely core from the late 16th century and early 19th-century alterations. The building has two storeys and features six windows. Its walls are covered in stucco, with a string course at the first floor and at the parapet, which has gables. The roof is hipped and covered with slates and concrete tiles, featuring an axial chimney made of gault brick and hipped slated casement dormers.

The first-floor windows are sash windows with segmental heads and small-pane sashes, while the ground floor windows of No. 122 were converted to French casements in the 19th century. No. 124 has 20th-century bay shop windows. The entrance consists of a pair of 19th-century two-panelled doors with side-lights, topped by a segmental fanlight with radial bars, and is sheltered by a flat-roofed open canopy supported by two circular columns.

At the rear, there is an 18th-century casement window with a scratch date of 1744. Inside, a ground floor room retains complete mid-18th-century decoration, including a moulded cornice and fireplace surround, full panelling with several re-used 17th-century sections of wainscotting, and a fine staircase featuring a moulded handrail, newels, turned balusters, and carved console brackets on the treads, along with a panelled dado and soffit. A large truncated open fireplace and some remnants of timber-framing from the late 16th-century house are also present. Additionally, No. 124 has an early 19th-century extension at the rear, which includes mullioned and transomed windows.