Lilac House

Lilac House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a fragmentary medieval core. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and roughcast, with the parlour block on the right displaying an oversailing gable tiebeam supported by delicately carved console brackets. The roof is covered with concrete plain tiles. There is an axial chimney from the early 17th century made of red brick, characterized by a sawtooth shaft and plinth with an ovolo-moulded cornice. The first storey has three-light 19th-century casements, while the ground floor features small-pane sashes with sidelights. The entrance door, from the mid-19th century, has four panels, with the upper panels glazed.

Inside, the 17th-century parlour block on the right was added to an earlier structure, of which only the walling remains. This earlier walling shows signs of smoke-blackening and is believed to have been part of an open hall from the 15th or early 16th century, which likely had additional cells on one or both sides. The interior features heavy arch-windbraced studding. The walls were raised, and a floor was inserted with good chamfered joists in the late 16th century or around 1600. The entire building has a 17th-century windbraced clasped-purlin roof. Additionally, there is a large lean-to outshut at the rear, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century.