Flash Cottages

Flash Cottages is a group of seven cottages that may have originally been a laithe house, which has since been subdivided and extended. The cottages date from the late 18th century, with some additions from the early 19th century. They are constructed from roughly coursed and squared stone, topped with stone flagged and Welsh slate roofs.

The original building is now Nos. 3-5, which features a blocked laithe door in the center, with the current doorway of No. 4 to its right. There is an inserted window in the blocking and another to the right. Above, two 2-light casements are located in what were once 3-light mullioned windows. To the right, former paired doorways have been altered, with one now a 2-light window, and a former mullioned window converted to a casement window to the left and above. The original house form is visible to the left.

The central door is flanked by 2-light windows on each floor, and a wide right-hand window that was formerly a shop window. There is a small lean-to to the right with an additional doorway on its inner face.

Nos. 1 and 2 are likely a somewhat later addition, positioned to the left of the original range. These two-storey cottages each have a single-unit, double-depth plan, with central doorways and inserted windows on either side. There is a blocked door to the right, featuring long and short quoins and a stone lintel. The upper windows of Nos. 4 and 5 (formerly 6) have square cut mullions.

No. 1 includes a side entrance in what was a former wash house extension, and has 2-light mullioned windows in the left-hand gable return. No. 7 is a later addition that projects to the right of the original farm complex, also two storeys high, with a doorway on the inner face of the wing and inserted 2-light casement windows in the original openings in the gable and left-hand return.