Paschoe House Including Stone Wall To West And North

Farmhouse, circa 1850–60, in Tudor Gothic style. Snecked mudstone rubble with ashlar quoins, dressed Bathstone details, ashlar chimney shafts with moulded cappings, and slate roofs.

The house has a double depth plan with parallel gable-end roofs, two storeys and attic over cellar. The principal garden front faces south, but the main entrance is on the north side.

The south front is symmetrical with five bays containing four windows. The two inner bays project forward as square gabled forms, each containing a four-light mullion-and-upper-transom window with a ventilator beneath the gable. The outer bays have matching two-light windows. A central single-storey porch projects flush with the fronts of the bay windows and features a Bathstone Tudor arched doorway with moulded surround and carved foliage in the spandrels. The porch contains a pair of panelled and glazed doors with overlight, probably original. Above the porch a parapet with a central gable frames an uninscribed panelled plaque. Soffit-moulded drip courses run at first floor level and below the parapet, with coping carried round the bay gables and main end gables. All windows are externally ovolo-moulded with fixed upper panes and lower sashes that slide up behind the transoms; all include horizontal glazing bars.

The east double gable wall is irregular, featuring three windows of one, two, and three lights with mullions and upper transoms. A canted bay window with embattled parapet occupies the ground floor right (rear).

The north elevation (main entrance) is also irregular with three windows and a stack to the left. Left of centre is the main entrance doorway, similar to the south front door, with a small drip course gable above. Above this is a four-light mullion-and-upper-transom window; to the right of centre is a matching three-light window and at the right end a small two-light window. The centre bays have gables containing ventilators.

The west end wall has two-light stone mullioned windows to each floor and a single-light window in the gable.

Internally, the front block contains a symmetrical four-room layout with a large central stack serving back-to-back fireplaces to the central rooms and end stacks to the outer rooms. A central lobby leads from the garden doorway. The rear block also has a four-room plan with a projecting rear lateral stack to the right (east) room, a large staircase right of centre, and service rooms to the left (west) served by an axial stack between them. The principal front rooms contain ornate Jacobean-style Bathstone chimney pieces. The rear block features a large open well staircase with closed string, shaped newel posts, and slender turned balusters. Much original joinery and most chimney pieces survive.

From the left (west) end of the front and set back slightly, a high stone wall extends westwards, stepping down and containing blind ovolo-moulded windows. This wall returns to the rear to enclose a service courtyard. From the right (west) end of the rear wall, a high stone wall extends northwards, connecting Paschoe House to Paschoe Cottage. This wall contains a blind two-light ovolo-moulded window and a large Tudor arched carriageway with richly-moulded jambs leading to the service courtyard. There is said to have been a gatehouse upper room connecting the house and cottage.