Mascott'S

Mascott's is a house with origins dating to the mid-16th century, likely with earlier elements from the 15th century to the central hall, which was altered in the 17th century. An early 19th-century extension was added to the rear. The house is built with a timber frame, rendered in places, and has a rear wing of colourwashed brick. The roof is gabled, with cross wings hipped at the front, and is covered in old tiles. External stacks have been rebuilt using brick in the mid-19th and 20th centuries.

The plan consists of a central hall flanked by cross wings, with the early 19th-century extension to the rear of the hall. The house has two storeys and a six-window front. A 20th-century gabled porch with a panelled door set in an early 19th-century moulded wood architrave is located to the right of centre. A mid-19th-century canted bay with plate glass sashes is to the left of the porch; other windows include 20th-century casements and two early 19th-century sixteen-pane sashes to the front of the right cross wing. Dormer windows have 20th-century two-light casements.

The rear of the house features early 19th-century sashes to the double-gabled central extension. The interior includes early/mid-19th-century panelled doors set in moulded wood architraves. The right-hand wing (the “Goss wing”) contains a reset clasped purlin roof dating back to the mid-16th/late 16th century. The central range contains 15th-century jowled storey posts, a truncated chamfered beam, ogee-stopped chamfered beams and joists. To the right is a three-bay collar-truss roof with clasped purlins and truncated wall plates. The left-hand “Goss wing” has a chamfered beam indicating the former position of a cross passage, a timber-framed partition with an upper face to the hall, jowled storey posts with arch braces, and a clasped purlin roof with spilt oak rafters.