Lavender Cottage And Yew Tree House

Lavender Cottage and Yew Tree House are two houses located on the west side of The Street in Leonard Stanley. They date from the mid-17th century, with early 18th-century rebuilding, late 18th-century alterations, and a c.1830 addition. The buildings are constructed of coursed rubble limestone, with rebuilt artificial stone and brick chimneys, and feature stone and Welsh slate roofs.

The houses are single-storey with an attic, while the return wing has been increased to two-storeys. On the northeast side, Yew Tree House has three segmental-arched openings: the left features a casement window, the center is blocked, and the right has a plank door. There is an eaves-mounted gabled roof dormer above. The return wing has an early 18th-century segmental-arched casement and a 16-pane upper floor sash window beneath a hipped roof.

The southeast end is rendered and has a small off-centre attic casement and a rebuilt artificial stone chimney. The southwest side includes a projecting two-storey 20th-century wing with metal casements and a rendered wall featuring two segmental-arched casements to the right, along with a tall brick chimney to the left. To the left of this wing is the coursed rubble front of Lavender Cottage, which has a segmental-arched casement and a doorway with a gabled porch, as well as a raking roof dormer.

Inside, there are timber-framed partitions. The partial rebuilding of the house suggests it may have been damaged in the village fire of 1686, and some of the original structure likely survives internally. The buildings hold an important position at a bend in the road.