DUCK END HOUSE

DUCK END HOUSE, DUCK END

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262810
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: DUCK END HOUSE
Statutory Address:: DUCK END HOUSE, DUCK END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262810
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: DUCK END HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DUCK END HOUSE, DUCK END

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:: DUCK END HOUSE, DUCK END

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Rollright
National Grid Reference:: SP 32913 31252

Details

ROLLRIGHT DUCK END SP3231-3331 Great Rollright 12/133 Duck End House 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Duck End House together with Dovecote)

GV II

Probably a manor house. Early C17. Limestone rubble with limestone- and marlstone-ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof with ashlar and rendered gable stacks. 2-unit plan with rear stair projection. 2 storeys plus attic and basement. Symmetrical 3-window front has a central chamfered stone doorway below a renewed 2-light stone-mullioned window with label, and has 3-light mullioned windows with labels in the outer bays. Basement has a renewed or inserted window to left. Steep-pitched roof has 3 gabled roof dormers, and the right stack has paired ashlar shafts on a plinth. Right end wall has blocked 2-light mullioned windows to 3 floors plus a small attic window. Left end wall has a small blocked opening at basement level. Rear has 3-light mullioned windows (some renewed or altered) to 3 floors, and has a central tall gabled stair tower with small window openings. Interior: stop-chamfered cross beams including perimeter beams; 3 Tudor-arched stone fireplaces: one chamfered, and with an adjoining bread oven, one moulded with recessed spandrels, and one moulded with carved spandrels; broad renewed spiral stair from basement to attics; C17 oak panelling re-used as doors; butt-purl in roof, formerly with 2 collars and a tiebeam to each truss. The underside of a hearthstone is inscribed 1628. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p624)

Listing NGR: SP3291331252

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 434031
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 624

Legal

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