Lawn Cottage And Railings And Gate To Front

Lawn Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring some red brick in Flemish bond, and has a roof covered with handmade red plain tiles. The house has three bays facing southwest, with an external stack at each end and a rear wing near the left end that includes an axial stack. There are single-storey lean-to extensions at the rear of the main range and to the left of the rear wing, both roofed with slate.

The building is one storey high with a cellar and attics. On the ground floor, there are three sash windows with 12 lights each. The first floor features three 19th-century casements in dormers with zinc segmental heads. The central entrance has a four-panel door set in a simple doorcase with a pulvinated frieze and a moulded pediment. The roof has a plain parapet and a gambrel shape. The left side of the building is made of exposed brick.

The rear wing includes an original sash window with 16 lights in a slated lean-to dormer, and a rear elevation featuring an original splayed bay of sashes with a configuration of 4-16-4 lights, some of which have crown glass. This wing also has a half-hipped gambrel roof. A brick wall extends from the left end of the main elevation, connecting to wrought iron railings on a dwarf wall, which forms the boundary with Church Road and spans the full width of the plot, interrupted by a central small gate with spearhead points and cranked iron rear supports.

Inside, the entrance hall features an arched recess on the right side, the original staircase, and an unusual folding door made of three vertical sections with original butterfly hinges. The ceiling of the left ground-floor room has a turned wooden ventilator that is ducted to a small vent in the front elevation, which is a rare feature. Behind the stack at the right end of the house is a bread oven with a lean-to roof, which is incomplete internally. In the rear wing, a 15th-century timber with a bowtell moulding from a large casement has been reused as a ceiling beam. This building is not the same as the house previously described as Lawn Cottage in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, which was incorrectly derived from the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map.