Duck'S Puddle

ST1343 EAST QUANTOXHEAD CP

13/85 No 43 and 45 (Duck's Puddle)

22.5.69

• II

Cottage, now divided. C16 altered circa 1600. Roughcast over rubble, thatched roof, brick stacks gable ends and large external stepped stack with brick chimney centre of facade, slate roofed bread oven projection. Plan: open hall house ceiled, now 3 cell and cross passage, set into hillside. One and a half storeys, 2:2 bays; 2-light leaded casement windows, ground floor two 2-light casement windows right and 3-light outer bay left, plank door to left of stack. Single storey one bay, pantiled lean to addition on right return. Interior not viewed; said to contain arch braced joint cruck trusses with remains of wind bracing, partly smoke blackened. Chamfered beams with step and runout stops; stud and panel screen to left of cross passage with shouldered flat headed doorway, superior stud and panel screen on low stone base to right, 4 centred arch doorway. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, August 1979; photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST1380343114