Description

TQ 64 NE PADDOCK WOOD LUCKS LANE

2/328 Swatlands

II

House. Circa mid C17, altered and extended in circa 1800. C17 core
originally framed construction but apparently totally rebuilt on the front and
return walls, which are rendered with chamfered rustication to the ground
floor. Slate roof to the front block, peg-tile to the rear block; stacks with
rendered shafts and flared chimneypots.

Plan and Development: South facing; double-depth plan, 3 rooms wide. The
front block is a C17 3 room lobby entrance plan house, lower end to the right
(east). In circa 1800 a separately-roofed rear service block was added on the
same axis and the exterior of the house was refronted and gentrified. The
lower end room was given a garden entrance on the right (east) return and
eventually used as a farm office.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a parapet, the slate
roof half-hipped at ends. Circa 1800 panelled front door to the lobby
entrance to right of centre. C20 casement windows, mostly in original
embrasures. Early/mid C19 verandah on cast iron columns with a corrugated
plastic and glazed roof and the remains of a timber canopy. The right return
has ball finials to the parapets of each block and 3 circa early C19 sash
windows with floating cornices on brackets. C20 door into the lower end room
below a floating cornice on brackets. The rear elevation preserves 2 circa
1800 small pane first floor sashes and 2 later C19 sashes on the first floor.
Large C20 conservatory added at the rear.

Interior: Good survival of C17 carpentry. The 2 right hand ground floor
rooms have chamfered stopped crossbeams and joists. The hall fireplace
preserves a damaged oak lintel, the lower end room fireplace is blocked. The
framing of the rear wall of the C17 block survives in part including a
complete wallpost. First floor archway of circa 1800.

Roof: Clasped purlin construction with evidence of further curved queen
struts to one crosswall.

Listing NGR: TQ6763245816

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545915

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