Description

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TL 2639
8/57

ASHWELL
Ashwell
SPRING HEAD (West side)
No 27 (Ducklake)

(Formerly listed as Ducklake, previously listed as Ducklake Farmhouse)

9.6.52

GV
II*

House. Two hall houses joined in one long range. Late C15 or early C15 origin on north; C16 origin on south. Timber frame. Roughcast walls. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys. Three plus three bays, the two houses joined by c.1600. East elevation has eight windows, a mixture of early C19 flush sash windows and, in centre, C17 leaded casements. Central early C19 fielded panel door with flat hood on scrolled brackets. South gable end has a large venetian sash window inserted by Sir Albert Richardson in 1930s. House is divided internally into two parts of identical size by a very unusual skewed transverse frame. In the first room from the south on the ground floor is a good C16 figured and decorative wall painting covering studwork and an ogee-headed door frame, a free geometrical design with a scrollwork frieze containing classical grotesques holding cartouches.

(RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2692639911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554755

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)