Duckstone House

Duckstone House is a house dating from around the mid 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and alterations in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick panels, and parts have been rebuilt and extended in painted brick. The roof is made of stone tiles and clay plain tiles, with gabled ends, and there are brick stacks at the axial and gable ends.

The house has a two-room plan, with the right-hand room (northeast) heated by a gable-end stack, while the left-hand room (southwest) was probably originally unheated. In the 18th century, a one-bay brick extension with a loft was added to the right end.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window southeast front. The ground floor features 20th-century two-light casements, with a doorway on the right set within a 20th-century glazed lean-to porch. There are two raking dormers with casements and a brick outshut on the right in front of the 18th-century brick extension. The rear northwest side has 19th-century two- and three-light wrought-iron casements on the left and in the raking dormer on the right, along with two 20th-century casements on the ground floor to the right. The 18th-century brick extension on the left has brick dentil eaves, a 20th-century glazed porch, and a loft doorway on the northeast gable end.

Inside, the right-hand room in the 18th-century extension features two large chamfered axial beams with straight-cut stops and exposed joists. The centre room, originally the right-hand end room, has a chamfered cross-beam without stops and ceiled joists, along with a fireplace that has a chamfered bressumer with straight-cut stops. The left-hand room, now divided axially, contains two large chamfered axial beams, one with large convex stops. There is a central framed partition with a small cranked-head doorway on the first floor, featuring a plank door with wrought-iron hinges. The house also has jowled storey-posts and large exposed purlins, as well as several plank doors with wrought-iron strap hinges.