Ducklake

Ducklake, 27, Springhead

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1102721
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Ducklake
Statutory Address:: Ducklake, 27, Springhead

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1102721
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: Ducklake
Statutory Address 1:: Ducklake, 27, Springhead

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Ducklake, 27, Springhead

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashwell
National Grid Reference:: TL 26926 39911

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 2639 8/57

ASHWELL Ashwell SPRING HEAD (West side) No 27 (Ducklake)

(Formerly listed as Ducklake, previously listed as Ducklake Farmhouse)

9.6.52

GV II*

House. Two hall houses joined in one long range. Late C15 or early C15 origin on north; C16 origin on south. Timber frame. Roughcast walls. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys. Three plus three bays, the two houses joined by c.1600. East elevation has eight windows, a mixture of early C19 flush sash windows and, in centre, C17 leaded casements. Central early C19 fielded panel door with flat hood on scrolled brackets. South gable end has a large venetian sash window inserted by Sir Albert Richardson in 1930s. House is divided internally into two parts of identical size by a very unusual skewed transverse frame. In the first room from the south on the ground floor is a good C16 figured and decorative wall painting covering studwork and an ogee-headed door frame, a free geometrical design with a scrollwork frieze containing classical grotesques holding cartouches.

(RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2692639911

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 162188
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.