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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- 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
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.
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.
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.
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