Lavender Cottage

Lavender Cottage is a house dating from around the 17th century, constructed from rendered and painted stone rubble with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends. It has a stone rubble stack on the left gable end, a front lateral stack, and a removed shaft from the right gable end. The original layout has been altered, but it likely started as a two-room plan with a through passage, where the left end was heated by the gable end stack and the hall on the right was heated by the front lateral stack. The left gable end stack may have heated a chamber on the first floor. In the late 18th century, a small heated service room was added to the rear of the hall. In the 19th century, outshot extensions were added to the front of the left lateral stack, the entrance, and the right room.

The house is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical three-window front. The ground floor features partly slate-hung, stone rubble single-storey outshots, including an early 19th-century 16-pane sash window on the left, a part-glazed 20th-century stable-type door, and a 19th-century triple sash window on the right outshot. The main range has 20th-century cross windows on the left. On the first floor, there is an early 19th-century 12-pane sash window to the left of the front lateral stack and two similar windows on the right.

Inside, the ceiling beams have been renewed. The right room has a fireplace with a renewed lintel and a blocked cloam oven. The left room features a rebuilt fireplace from the 20th century, with a granite lintel that has run-out stops and a small ball finial, possibly from a demolished manor or chapel of St. James. The kitchen at the rear left includes a 19th-century cloam oven, and there is a 19th-century stair. The first floor was not inspected. Lavender Cottage is part of a picturesque group in Fore Street, Boscastle.