Lavender Cottage

Lavender Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, located on Church Road in Barton, Torquay. The building is constructed of roughcast cob and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. The chimney shafts were not visible during the survey.

The house has a single-depth plan and is four rooms wide, with the entrance located to the right of the center. A staircase rises from what is now the rear wall. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that includes four windows. The front door, positioned to the right of center, is an early 19th-century design with hollow-chamfered cover strips and studs. There are four early 20th-century three-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, each with three panes per light. The right side of the house features a probably Edwardian oriel window adorned with a dentil cornice and high transomed casements.

Inside, the joists are of slender scantling and designed to support plaster, with a boxed-in staircase and likely 18th-century wide floorboards. The feet of the trusses visible on the first floor suggest the presence of 'A'-frame trusses. Notably, the house was two cottages as of 1975.