Lavender Cottage

House. Lavender Cottage probably dates to the early 16th century as an open hall house, with a western crosswing added in the early 17th century. The house is timber-framed with a brick plinth and roughcast rendering, and has steep-pitched thatched roofs. It is a small, L-shaped house set back from the road facing north, comprising a single-storey hall range and a 1 1/2-storey western crosswing that projects to the front. There are three windows on the front, with an additional window in the gable of the crosswing. The windows are 2-light flush casements with small panes, and a plank door is positioned opposite an internal 17th-century chimney in the middle of the hall range. Originally, the house comprised two rooms open to the roof, with a hearth in the western room, as shown by the thicker soot blackening on the clasped-purlin roof. Two ground-floor posts retain stopped grooves indicating former wattle infill. A ceiling was inserted along with an internal chimney in the 17th century to heat the western room. The crosswing was added to the west, creating an unheated parlour and a chamber above, reached by a staircase in the southeast corner. The crosswing features chamfered beams with run-out stops. The first floor is partly within the roof space, with traces of large windows below the tie-beam. The roof is of a clasped-purlin style, with long straight wind braces and a ceiling at purlin level. A 20th-century addition exists at the rear.