Lavender Cottage

Lavender Cottage is a house dating to around 1600, located on the north side of The Street in Badwell Ash. It is a timber-framed building, now rendered with plain tile roofing. The house originally had a three-cell internal layout and a cross-entry plan. The chimney stack is constructed of small Tudor bricks. Modern two-light and three-light casement windows have been added to each storey. Originally two dwellings, the building retains two half-glazed doors, though neither is in its original location. The interior frame comprises four bays, including a chimney bay, with exposed timber framing. The framing features widely-spaced, substantial studs with a middle rail, and trusses with cambered tie-beams, arched braces (mostly removed), and jowled posts. On the upper floor, there are several blocked original diamond-mullioned windows, one in each gable end, with only one mullion remaining in place. The main ceiling beams are chamfered with curved stops; in the parlour, unchamfered joists are set flat and close together. The roof structure includes clasped side purlins, remnants of windbracing, and intermediate collars between trusses, and was formerly thatched. A 19th-century brick addition to the left, now Cavell Cottage, is excluded from this listing.