[1] Anne visited Erwarton as a child and a long-held local tradition maintains that her heart is buried in the crypt of the Church of St Mary in the village.

[1] In the Tudor era, from which the Erwarton Lodge dates, this trend accelerated, and East Anglia contains some important examples, such as the gatehouse at Layer Marney in Essex and that at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk.

Timothy Mowl, is his work on lodges, Trumpet at a Distant Gate writes that "the desire of an owner to impress a visitor outweighed his wish to repel an attacking force".

For most of the 20th, the hall was leased by the Ministry of Defence for use as the official home of the commander of the HMS Ganges naval training school, located at Shotley.

Objections to the proposal had been lodged by the hall's current owners, and by Griff Rhys Jones and the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal, John Gummer.