Flood Cottages

Flood Cottages is a pair of attached cottages built in 1842, located in Orcheston, Orcheston St. Mary. They are constructed of cob with a Welsh slate roof and feature an axial brick stack. The cottages are two stories high with a four-window front. Each cottage has half-glazed doors on the left and right, flanked by two 20th-century casements and two 2-light 19th-century casements. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casements and two 2-light 19th-century casements. At the rear, there is a continuous original lean-to on the ground floor, while the first floor has two 2-light casements. The returns of the cottages are windowless and have wavy bargeboards on the gables. A large cast-iron plaque on the front wall commemorates the construction of the cottages in 1842, following The Great Flood of 1841. This pair is one of two in Orcheston; the others are located in Tilshead and Shrewton, though the latter are not sufficiently unaltered to be listed.