Lavender Cottage

Lavender Cottage is a house that likely dates from the mid-17th century, with alterations and a facade added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and features red and grey brick in a Flemish-type bond. The right gable end is made of red brick in Flemish bond, with buff brick above the wall-plate. The roof is covered in plain tiles and has three timber-framed bays arranged in a lobby-entry plan. The building has one and a half storeys, with a flint and stone plinth topped with brick. There is a corbelled brick section under the protruding morticed wall-plate. The steeply-pitched roof is hipped to the left with a gablet and half-hipped to the right. There is a brick ridge stack on the right end of the central bay and a slightly projecting stack on the right gable end. The cottage has three flat-roofed two-light dormers and irregular ground-floor windows consisting of three two-light casements with cambered heads. The half-glazed door, which also has a cambered head, is located under the stack. Inside, there are gunstock-jowled posts and arch-braced tie-beams. A partition made of broadly spaced studding and wattle-and-daub infilling is found above the tie-beam between the left and central bays. The roof is ceiled, and the ground-floor ceiling features boxed beams and a boarded ceiling. There is a painted brick fireplace with wooden bressumers, and the stairs are located behind the stack.