Lavender Cottage

WESTHORPE CHURCH ROAD (NORTH SIDE) TM 06 NW 4/107 Lavender Cottage - GV II

House. Mid C16, stack inserted late C16; stack enlarged, extended slightly to right and reroofed late C17, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roof. 3 cell cross passage plan. 2 storeys. Ground floor: lobby entrance to right of centre in a C20 gabled porch with a 4 centred arch over a studded door, brick nogging, leaded lights, flanking 4- light transomed glazing bar casements, to left or service bay a 3-light transomed glazing bar casement, all with hoodboards. First floor centre and right part opening 9 pane metal frame casements, transomed 3 lights to left. Stack in front of ridge between hall and parlour, enlarged to right. Right end French windows. Left end C17 consoles to exposed plates, a C20 external stack in a lean-to outshut. To rear a break in wall to upper bay of hall reflecting late C16 alterations, 2 small lean-to outshuts. Interior: close studding, hall has complex arrangement of moulded ceiling beams probably reflecting removal of smoke hood and reorganisation of upper bay with insertion of stack, at lower end and along front are original embattled roll and hollow moulded beams, a similar beam to rear replaced in upper bay with a simpler roll moulded beam, quirked wave moulded beams across upper end, as a cross axial binding beam and an axial binding beam in upper bay, rebated roll moulded joists, reset in upper bay. Parlour has a quirked wave moulded axial binding beam, chamfered fireplace bressumer, later framing to right end wall. Service end reused jewel stopped beam on end wall. First floor arched braces to cambered tie beams, some removed. Coupled rafter roof appears to be all C17, smoke blackened by leaking stack.

Listing NGR: TM0473969134