Iron Gates And Lavendar Cottage

Iron Gates and Lavendar Cottage are two houses built around 1630-1640. They feature a plastered and colourwashed timber frame sitting on a brick plinth, topped with a roof of corrugated tiles. The buildings are two storeys high and have a three-window range.

Iron Gates, the southern house, has two 20th-century Crittall windows on the ground floor, flanking a glazed 20th-century porch, and one Crittall window on the first floor. Lavendar Cottage, the northern house, has a late 20th-century stable door with a three-light late 20th-century casement window on either side. The first floor has two 19th-century three-light casement windows. The gabled roof features a central ridge stack and an external gable-end stack on the north side, along with two Velux roof lights in Lavendar Cottage. The south gable and a two-storey rear wing are fitted with Crittall casements.

Inside Lavendar Cottage, the timber frame has moderate scantling and jowled principal studs. The ground-floor room to the south has a diamond-stopped chamfered bridging beam and a wide inglenook fireplace beneath a plain bressumer. The roof structure includes clasped purlins and curved windbraces.