Joyes Lavenders

This is a late 16th-century house, subsequently altered in the 17th, 18th, and late 19th centuries, and now divided into two separate dwellings. The house is timber-framed and originally plastered, but the front facade was re-faced in the late 19th century with yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The roof is covered in handmade red plain tiles. It features a 16th-century stack in the left bay, set against the front wall, and an 18th-century external stack at the right end. The house has two storeys, a cellar, and attics.

A 2-storey lean-to extension runs along the full length of the rear, forming a catslide roofline with the main roof. A 2-storey rear wing, with a hipped roof, creates a T-shaped plan. There are 19th-century single-storey lean-to extensions to the left and at the rear of the left rear corner, with slate roofing at the rear. A 20th-century porch with a tiled hipped roof sits in the right rear angle. A 20th-century single-storey extension of yellow brick has been added to the left end. The front has a 3-window range of late 19th-century casement windows, with 2 lights in the left part (Lavenders) and 3 lights in the right part (Joyes). Dormers with 2-light casements are also present. There are two late 19th-century 5-panel doors. Stone lintels over the front windows and doors are detailed with dogtooth ornament on their chamfered soffits. The roof has a dentilled parapet, and a half-hipped gambrel form. The left stack has been rebuilt with yellow brick at the top, while the right stack has tumbling courses at each reduction.

Inside, the house retains chamfered binding and axial bridging beams with lamb's tongue stops, along with chamfered joists of horizontal section, also with lamb’s tongue stops. Some exposed studding is visible in the rear wall of the original portion of the house. There are edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. The walls were raised in the 17th century, evidenced by face-halved and bladed scarfs in the upper wallplates. The upper floor also exhibits chamfered tiebeams, bridging beams with lamb’s tongue stops, and plain square joists. Curve bracing also remains in the walls. Wattle and daub is exposed in a cross-wall on the first floor, both in the original build and the raised section. Within the "Joyes" section, a blocked early glazed window remains, complete with one ovolo mullion and two diamond saddle bars; this is a notable feature requiring careful preservation, and further windows of this type may be concealed within the plaster. A large wood-burning hearth faces to the right. A 17th-century moulded 3-plank door opens into the rear extension on the ground floor. The cellar appears to be constructed from 16th-century bricks.