Lavender Cottage

Lavender Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with a stack added in the late 16th century. The stack was enlarged and the roof was slightly extended to the right and reroofed in the late 17th century, with further alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has a timber frame that is plastered and features a steeply pitched pantiled roof. It follows a three-cell cross passage plan and has two storeys.

On the ground floor, there is a lobby entrance located to the right of centre, which is accessed through a 20th-century gabled porch that has a four-centred arch over a studded door. The porch includes brick nogging and leaded lights, with flanking four-light transomed glazing bar casements. To the left, in the service bay, there is a three-light transomed glazing bar casement, all of which have hoodboards. The first floor has nine-pane metal frame casements in the centre and right parts, with three transomed lights to the left. The stack is positioned in front of the ridge between the hall and parlour and has been enlarged to the right. The right end features French windows, while the left end has 17th-century consoles supporting exposed plates. There is a 20th-century external stack in a lean-to outshut. At the rear, there is a break in the wall at the upper bay of the hall, reflecting late 16th-century alterations, along with two small lean-to outshuts.

Inside, the cottage displays close studding. The hall has a complex arrangement of moulded ceiling beams, likely indicating the removal of a smoke hood and reorganization of the upper bay with the insertion of the stack. At the lower end and along the front, there are original embattled roll and hollow moulded beams. A similar beam at the rear has been replaced in the upper bay with a simpler roll moulded beam. There are quirked wave moulded beams across the upper end, functioning as a cross axial binding beam and an axial binding beam in the upper bay, along with rebated roll moulded joists that have been reset in the upper bay. The parlour features a quirked wave moulded axial binding beam and a chamfered fireplace bressumer, with later framing on the right end wall. The service end has a reused jewel stopped beam on the end wall. On the first floor, there are arched braces to the cambered tie beams, some of which have been removed. The coupled rafter roof appears to be entirely from the 17th century and shows signs of smoke blackening from a leaking stack.