Duddage

Duddage is a detached house dating from the 17th century, with extensions built in the 18th, early 19th, and mid- to late-19th centuries. The original core of the house is timber-framed with unpainted brick infill, with some sections rebuilt in squared and dressed limestone and sandstone, or brick. A further extension is constructed in squared and dressed grey sandstone, whilst another is of red brick. The roof is tiled, with brick stacks. The original 17th-century section is rectangular in plan, with a later range set back at a right angle to the main body, the roof of which has been removed. A smaller 19th-century extension runs parallel to and in front of this. The original core has two storeys and an attic. The front has a twin-gabled, three-bay design. A twelve-pane sash window is on the ground floor of the left-hand gable, set across the blocking of what appear to be two stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods. Three-light casements with glazing bars are in the ground and first floors of the right-hand gable. Shuttered two-light windows are found towards the apex of each gable. A 20th-century six-panel door is set within an open-sided porch. Two twelve-pane sashes are located on the left gable end, with gauged brick heads. A circular bull's-eye window is positioned towards the apex of this gable. Two blocked openings are present to the left of the sashes. A badly eroded blocked sandstone stone-mullioned window is found on the left-hand return. To the left is a seven-windowed 18th-/early-19th-century extension, originally lit by large segmental-headed windows, most of which are now blocked, with one retaining cross mullions. Plank doors are located on the far left and far right. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the 1986 resurvey, but the room to the right of the front door contains a large open fireplace with a pot crane.