20, Duke Street

No. 20 Duke Street is a village house that dates from the 18th century or possibly earlier. The front features slate hanging over a rubble plinth, and it has a hipped and sprocketted rag slate roof with paired brackets supporting the projecting front eaves. There are two rendered lateral stacks at the rear and a rubble stack at the rear gable of the wing. The house has a shallow-depth plan with a wing at the rear left and is two storeys tall with a four-window range. The first floor has tall 18-pane hornless sash windows from the 18th century or early 19th century, while the ground floor features early 19th-century sixteen-pane hornless sash windows. There is a segmental-arched rendered porch under the second window from the left, leading to a six-panel door. Inside, there is an original dog-leg staircase with a closed string, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. The ceiling in the right-hand room is lower than the window heads, indicating that the house may have been refronted in the 18th century.