Description

TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD CRITTENDEN ROAD

6/323 Badsell Park Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C19 remodelling and extension of a circa mid C17 house. The
C17 core is framed, the ground floor underbuilt in brick, the first floor
tile-hung. The C19 phase is also brick and tile-hung; peg-tile roofs; brick
stacks.

Plan: The house faces approximately north. L-plan. The main block is 2-
rooms wide with a central entrance into a hall containing the stair. The
right hand (west) end of the main block and the rear right wing, roofed on a
north south axis, are the remains of a C17 house, probably originally a 3 room
lobby entrance plan house, the north service end truncated and the northern
room re-roofed at right angles during the late C19 remodelling which reduced
the original parlour to a kitchen. The axial stack of the C17 house survives,
as does some of the wall-framing, and a probably later rear (east) outshut.
C20 single-storey kitchen, heated from an end stack, adjoins the rear wing at
the south end.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with gables to the front at
left and right, the right hand gable a 1980s addition. Late C19 open gabled
porch to left of centre with timber struts in the gable and a half-glazed late
C19 front door. Canted bay window to the left with a hipped roof, glazed with
2-light late C19 or C20 casements, 2 panes per light. The other windows, 2 to
the right of the porch and 4 on the first floor are similar 2- and 3-light
casements. The rear right wing has a half-hipped roof at the south end and a
catslide roof to the outshut. Stack with staggered triple shafts.

Interior: The C17 core retains one original fireplace to the axial stack.
This has a chamfered oak lintel and brick jambs, one jamb rebuilt and the
lintel reduced in length. A plaque over the lintel is inscribed in capitals
"The right honable the earle of Westmoreland TFK 1712". The farm was formerly
part of the Westmorland estate. The fireplace retains a C19 chimney crook.
C17 wall-framing survives on the first floor, the wall posts with formed
jowls; original floorboards also survive. The C19 stair in the entrance hall
has turned balusters.

Roof: No access to the apex of the C17 roof at time of survey (1989). It is
plastered over in the attic and is of a side purlin construction.

Listing NGR: TQ6784344787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545911

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)