Poorly kept view from heartless duchy (5)
I believe the answer is:
seedy
'poorly' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'kept view from heartless duchy' is the wordplay.
'kept view' becomes 'see' ('see' can be a synonym of 'view'. I am not sure about the 'kept' bit.**).
'from' says to put letters next to each other.
'heartless' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'duchy' with its centre taken out is 'dy'.
'see'+'dy'='SEEDY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for seedy that I've seen before include "Pip is" , "Dilapidated" , "Run-down, squalid" , "Like some cakes" , "Scruffy" .)