Lilac Cottage

Lilac Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring old casement windows and a mid-20th century entrance door. Inside, there is an internal stack with an original plain rectangular shaft. Originally an open hall house, it has a storied service end to the left. The interior has been modernised, but some of the structure remains exposed. The hall has a smoke-blackened queen-post roof with a row of purlins below the arcade plate, and the original hipped end is still visible in the roofspace. The roof over the service cell has been altered to create an attic, but the medieval hipped end has been preserved. A stack has been inserted at the lower end of the hall, and there is an inserted ceiling with plain joists.