Duck'S Pool Cottage

Duck's Pool Cottage is a small house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is built of colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings and features a thatched roof, gabled at the left end and hipped at the right end, with a left end stack and a rear right projecting stack. The plan consists of a single depth two-room layout, which originally included a cross passage. A 20th-century stair has been introduced into the passage, with a newel stair adjacent to the left end stack. A thick crosswall between the former passage and the right end room suggests that this may have been a single cell cottage that was extended at the right end, or a larger building that was rebuilt at that end. A former outbuilding at the right end has been converted to domestic use in this century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front. The thatch eaves are eyebrowed over the first-floor windows. There is an approximately central front door with a thatched porch canopy supported by moulded brackets. The windows are 20th-century two-light timber casements with glazing bars in enlarged embrasures, except for the ground floor right, which features a larger four-light similar window. The rear elevation has one 19th-century two-light timber casement with glazing bars that lights the stair.

Inside, the cottage remains unmodernized. The left-hand room has a chamfered crossbeam with step scroll stops and an open fireplace with a chamfered step-stopped lintel. There is a stone newel stair adjacent to the stack. The doorway to the right-hand room features a 17th-century chamfered stopped lintel, and this room has an open fireplace with a timber lintel and no exposed ceiling beams. The roof apex was not inspected during the survey in 1987, but the principal rafters visible upstairs are straight.

Duck's Pool Cottage is located at the entrance to the farm lane leading to Perry Farm and occupies a prominent position on the roadside. It was formerly known as Perry Cottage and was presumably a labourer's house at one time.