Flash House Farmhouse and adjoining cottage

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SE 20 NE 3/49

CAWTHORNE LANE HEAD ROAD (north side) Flash House Farmhouse and adjoining cottage

31.10.83

GV II

Farmhouse and adjoining cottage. House dated 1729, restored 1986, cottage is probably earlier but is much altered. Coursed squared stone with quoins, cottage rendered. Stone slate roofs. Two storeys. House: three bay symmetrical facade. Central doorway with plain surround and raised keystone inscribed "R/J A/1729"

Cross-window, at intermediate level, above. Band between floors. Three-light flat-faced mullion windows except ground-floor right which has been replaced by two four-pane sashes in plain surrounds. Gable-copings on moulded kneelers; ornamental, ashlar end stacks. The cottage to right is slightly set back and has a slender, lower bay to left with the doorway and a wider gabled bay to right with three-light windows to ground and first floors and a blocked two-light window in gable apex, all with square surrounds but recessed chamfered mullions. Later and altered additions to left return and rear of house.

Interior: the cottage contains a fragment of timber framing, possibly reused, consisting of part of a truss (possibly complete), part of post and sawn-off arcade plates.

Listing NGR: SE2680007270