Age: Four years.
Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks.
Why would ducks need a house? It's more of an island shelter, designed to float in the middle of a pond in order to keep the ducks safe from foxes.
Hang on – didn't somebody get into trouble because of it, for some reason, at some point? Yes, Gosport MP Sir Peter Viggers. He bought it in May 2006, for £1,645.
They saw him coming. And he us. Viggers claimed for the shelter, along with £30,000 in other gardening costs over three years, as part of his expenses as an MP. The Conservative member of parliament's duck house became a convenient symbol for the arrogance and greed that characterised the whole expenses scandal.
What happened to him? A furious David Cameron forced to him to stand down at the last general election. Viggers said, "I have made a ridiculous and grave error of judgment. I am ashamed and humiliated and I apologise."
Did he give back the duck-house dosh? Actually, the Commons fees office disallowed the original claim, so he never got it.
What happened to the duck house? "It was never liked by the ducks," said Viggers last year, "and is now in storage."
A sad ending to a depressing tale. Wait – there's a footnote. Viggers has now sold the duck house to Hilton Hall, a 14th-century manor house-turned business centre in the West Midlands, for £1,700.
He turned a £55 profit? How cynical. Not really. A new Stockholm duck island would have cost Hilton Hall £2,200. And anyway, Viggers donated the money to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Do say: "He did the right thing in the end; that's what counts."
Don't say: "Good God, even his ducks were snobs."
