Ducksfoot Farmhouse

Farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th century, with substantial remodelling in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a 20th-century extension. The house is built with a plastered timber frame and clay lump construction, featuring a steeply pitched pantile roof with bargeboards to the gable ends. A brick axial stack is located to the right of the centre. The original part of the house comprises three bays, with a stack inserted in the central bay during the 17th or 18th century to heat the north room and create a front lobby entry. Around the 18th century, a two-storey, single-room plan extension was added to the south end, and a wing was added to the rear of the right-hand end in the 20th century. The east front has a 1:3 window arrangement; the three-window range to the right represents the original house with a gabled porch added in the 20th century. The 20th-century windows are casements with glazing bars. The left-hand single-window range has a lower pitched roof. At the rear, there is a small outshut behind the south extension, alongside a 20th-century outshut forming an angle with a large rear wing on the left. Further rear windows are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. Inside, the timber frame is exposed. The north room of the original range features a crossbeam between the north and centre bays against the stack, resting on jowled posts and displaying chamfering on both sides with hollow step stops. It contains a relatively narrow fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel. The south room of the original range has two concealed crossbeams. The chambers in the left and right bays, and the landing in the centre bay, all have exposed timber framing with jowled wall posts and curved tension braces; the north chamber has a blocked diamond mullion window in the rear wall. The two central queen-post trusses in the centre chamber are exposed, with braces and mortices for missing braces to the collars and purlins in the roof space. Clapsed purlins and some common rafters also survive.