Duck's Puddle is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage.
Duck's Puddle
- WRENN ID
- kindled-span-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Duck's Puddle, 43 and 45, East Quantoxhead
- OS grid reference
- ST 138 431
- Coordinates
- 51.18073, -3.23458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Duck's Puddle is a cottage that has been divided and dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made around 1600. The exterior is roughcast over rubble, featuring a thatched roof, brick stacks at the gable ends, and a large external stepped stack with a brick chimney located in the center of the facade. There is also a slate-roofed bread oven projection.
The building is designed as an open hall house that has been ceiled and is now arranged as three cells with a cross passage, set into a hillside. It has one and a half storeys and is composed of two bays on the front and two bays on the side. The windows are 2-light leaded casements, with two 2-light casement windows on the ground floor to the right and a 3-light window in the outer bay to the left. A plank door is located to the left of the stack. There is a single-storey, one-bay lean-to addition on the right side, covered with pantiles.
Although the interior was not viewed, it is reported to contain arch-braced joint cruck trusses with some remains of wind bracing, which are partly smoke blackened. The interior also features chamfered beams with step and run-out stops, a stud and panel screen to the left of the cross passage with a shouldered flat-headed doorway, and a superior stud and panel screen on a low stone base to the right, along with a four-centred arch doorway.
Local climate
Duck's Puddle receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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