Duck End House

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