Duck End Cottage

DUCK END COTTAGE, 40, SUTTON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1199854
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
Duck End Cottage
Statutory Address:
DUCK END COTTAGE, 40, SUTTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1199854
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
Duck End Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
DUCK END COTTAGE, 40, SUTTON LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DUCK END COTTAGE, 40, SUTTON LANE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Stanton Harcourt
National Grid Reference:
SP 42028 06146

Details

STANTON HARCOURT SUTTON LANE SP40NW (South side) Sutton No.40 (Duck End Cottage) 8/346 07/08/74

GV II

House. Late medieval; remodelled in C17. Cruck-framed. Roughcast over timber frame on limestone rubble plinth; weatherboarded right bay; thatch roof, hipped to right; rendered stone finished in brick left end stack. Hall house: first floor and stack inserted in C17. One storey and attic; 2-window range. C20 door to right of C19 two-light casements; bread oven to left. Interior: two and a half bays survive of cruck-framed medieval house. Full cruck to left has morticed collar; originally a partition wall. Raised cruck to right has chamfering with pyramid steps to arch-braced collar and ridge-piece resting on saddled apex. Through purlins, with some windbraces. C17 chamfered beams and open fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Raised cruck was built over the medieval hall, the bays to the right having been removed. (A. Pacey, Duck End: a group of Oxfordshire Houses (privately published), 1985, pp.56-57 for sections and p.31 for plans; Oxfordshire Museum, Woostock, PRN 3387 for photographic and drawn survey).

Listing NGR: SP4202806146

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
252430
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pacey, A, Duck End A Group of Oxfordshire Houses, (1985), 56-57

Legal

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

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