Flash Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1983. Cottage.

Flash Cottages

WRENN ID
dim-transept-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Flash Cottages, 1 and 2, Poplar Street, Theberton
OS grid reference
TM 446 657
Coordinates
52.23515, 1.58152
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Flash Cottages, a pair of cottages from the early 18th century, are timber-framed and plastered with a pantiled roof. They are single-storey with an attic and feature a range of two windows with casements. The cottages have modern doors and two gabled dormers. A central ridge stack is present, and there is a rear brick lean-to that includes four plank doors.

Local climate

Flash Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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