Duck Hall Farm

BOVINGDON NEWHOUSE ROAD TL 00 SW (North side) 6/36 Duck Hall Farm -

GV II

Farmhouse, now a private house. Late C15 former open hall house, N wing early C19, mid C19 brick casing and tilehanging. Timber frame on brick sill. Upper floor of red tilehanging with scalloped tiled bands. Steep old red tile roofs. A 1½ storeys, 3-cells and cross-passage house facing S with 2 unequal gables facing road on W. Matching C19 parallel rear extension on NW with catslide rear outshut at NE of main range.Irregular S front has a gabled dormer window rising through the eaves in the middle bay with similar 3-light casement windows to that to hall below. Door on RH up 3 steps leads into cross-passage. Small 2-light Yorkshire sliding casement to right of door. Large side-chimney to parlour rises through lower part of roofslope on left. W front has rendered ground floor below, decorative tilehanging, 2 windows to each floor and door in middle. 3-light casement windows and 4-panel, half glazed door under a lean-to bracketed tiled hood. Interior has cross-passage taken out of E service bay with original upper floor structure (lower than rest) and access by steep ladder in SE corner to room over. The other 2 bays had floors inserted in the C16 on chamfered axial beams, the middle bay provided with a large rear wall fireplace and chimney with winding stair beside it on W. The front wall chimney to the W bay has 2 flues for the parlour and chamber over it. This plan may be a C16 adaptation of a former 2-bay open hall with storeyed service end, common in this area. Curved braces to heavy cambered tie-beams. Clasped-purlin roofs with collars and queen-struts. Wattle and daub partition panels. Ledged plank doors on iron hooks and bands. Early C19 N extension gave 2 more heated rooms and new stair. (Roberts(1975)No.36: Pevsner (1977)107).

Listing NGR: TL0120504043