Description

TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD BADSELL ROAD

6/316 Mascalls
3.3.71 previously listed as
Mascalls Farmhouse
II

House, early C17 or earlier with early and late C19 additions. Early range
framed construction, the front elevation tile-hung, the return walls
underbuilt in brick to first floor level and tile-hung above. The C19
additions are brick with some tile-hanging including bands of scalloped tiles;
peg-tile roofs; brick stacks.

Plan: Irregular plan. The early range is roofed on a north south axis and
faces east. It is 2 rooms on plan at present with a right (north) end stack
and an axial stack to left of centre. A rear wing at right angles is probably
early C19 in date although heavily remodelled in the late C19, and forms a
south facing entrance block with a long entrance passage running parallel to
the rear wall of the early range and extending into another block to the
north. The main stair rises from this passage. A circa 1880s crosswing to
the entrance block adjoins at the west, containing one large reception room on
the ground floor.

Exterior: 2 storeys, the entrance block 2 storeys and attic. Gable-ended
roofs, the gables (including those of dormer windows) with curly C19
bargeboards. Fenestration mostly late C19/early C20, most of the ground floor
windows high transomed plate glass windows, the first floor windows large 2-
light casements, 2 panes per light. Asymmetrical 2:1 south elevation, with
the gabled end of the early (east) block at the right end. Gabled early C19
porch into the south block to the right with a chamfered brick Tudor arched
doorway and a glazed outer door and Tudor arched early C19 inner door, the
upper panels glazed. The porch gable has ogee bargeboards. French window
alongside to the left and, in the end of the early block to the right. 2
first floor casement windows, plus one to the first floor of the early block.
2 gabled attic dormers. The inner (east) return of the late C19 west
crosswing has 2 ground floor French windows and 2 gabled dormers with casement
windows above a moulded brick cornice. The upper part of the elevation is
tile-hung with bands of scalloped tiles. The right (east) return of the house
is the front of the early block. This is 3 windows with a C19 gable to the
front in the centre with curly bargeboards and a pendant, 2-light gable
casement. 3 first floor casements and 3 ground floor French windows, 2 gabled
attic dormers. The rear (north) elevation has 3 gables. Early C19 Tudor
arched porch, opposed to the front door, with a circa 1860s lean-to porch hood
on shaped pierced brackets. The centre and right hand gabled blocks have 2-
tier canted bay windows, probably late C19 or early C20. The west return of
the crosswing is tile-hung to the first floor with bands of scalloped tiles.
Lateral stack with multiple brick shafts, one ground floor French window. The
service block to the left (north) preserves a bell fixed to the wall.

Interior: The early block preserves most of the wall framing including wall
posts with formed jowls on the rear (west) elevation. Jettied sections
(partly boxed in) suggest that it had 2 jettied gables to the west. C17
ceiling carpentry survives in the first floor rooms with scroll stops to the
crossbeams. Elsewhere the internal fittings are C19. They include a marble
chimney-piece in the principal room of the early block, with vine leaf
decoration, fluted jambs and a reeded cornice. The north room, at the end of
the entrance passage has a repaired circa 1880s carved Arts and Crafts timber
chimney-piece with a fine tiled surround, the tiles depicting vairous crafts
and showing, among others, a barber and dyer at work. Other C19 chimney-
pieces and iron grates survive on the first floor. The main stair, probably
1840s, has a cast iron balustrade in the form of stylized flowers and a ramped
handrail. The entrance passage is divided from the entrance hall to the west
by 2 large Tuscan columns, probably early C20 in date. The west crosswing
contains a large room with a very high ceiling with a decorated plaster
cornice and ceiling frieze. It may have served as a ballroom originally but
was described as a billiard room in sales particulars (information from the
owner). This room has had a large swimming pool introduced into it.

Roof: The roof of the east range is of clasped purlin and queen strut design
to the north of the axial stack with staggered butt purlins to the south.

The house is also identifiable as one mentioned in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs
of a Fox-hunting Man (1928). It was owned by his Godfather and he visited
from his home, Weirleigh (q.v.) in the adjoining parish of Brenchley. During
the Second World War it was the home of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick
Morgan, Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Command and is said to have been the
location for Supreme Command meetings (information from the owner).

Listing NGR: TQ6669044178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545810

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