The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 SE LYMINGE CHURCH ROAD (west side)
4/144 Lavender Cottage
GV II
House. Probably mid C17, with C18 and C19 alterations and facade. Timber framed. Red and grey brick in a Flemish-type bond. Right gable end red brick in Flemish bond, with buff brick above wall-plate. Plain tile roof. 3 timber-framed bays. Lobby-entry plan. 1½ storeys. Flint and stone plinth with brick top course. Corbelled brick under protruding morticed wall-plate. Steeply-pitched roof, hipped to left with gablet, half-hipped to right. Brick ridge stack to right end of central bay, and slightly-projecting right gable-end stack. Three flat-roofed two-light dormers. Irregular ground-floor fenestration of 3 two-light casements with cambered heads. Half-glazed door with cambered head, under stack. Interior: gunstock-jowled posts. Arch-braced tie-beams. Partition of broadly-spaced studding and wattle-and-daub infilling above tie-beam between left and central bays. Roof ceiled. Boxed ground-floor ceiling- beams and boarded ceiling. Painted brick fireplace with wooden bressumers. Stairs behind stack.
Listing NGR: TR1614640971

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.