Duck End House Rollright, England
Listed Building Data
Duck End House has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1262810
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 27 August 1957
- Name
- DUCK END HOUSE
- Location
- DUCK END HOUSE, DUCK END
- Parish
- Rollright
- District
- West Oxfordshire
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 32913 31252
- Easting
- 432913.0000
- Northing
- 231252.0000
Listed Building Description
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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
