Badgeworth Court School

Badgeworth Court School is a large house built between 1897 and 1901 by F.W. Waller of Gloucester, originally for J.H. Selwyn Paine. The design incorporates elements of an earlier house by Thomas Rickman and his pupil Henry Hutchinson. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and has a basically rectangular plan.

The front of the building features a central projecting porch with a shaped gable. The entrance arch is of moulded red sandstone, with a keystone and carved spandrels, and decorative elements above the door, although these are obscured by ivy. A three-light window sits above the door, featuring ovolo-moulded windows and a moulded sill that continues as a string course around the porch. The porch has a parapet with a moulded cornice and originally held a heraldic shield bearing a lion, three clam shells, and a fleur de lys within a strapwork surround above the gable. Only one of the original three spiked ball finials remains. A bull's-eye window is located to the right of the return. To the left of the porch is a five-light sandstone window with ovolo-moulded mullions and two transoms, containing heraldic stained glass. A projecting chimney stack is set back to the left, flanked by bull's-eye windows with ornately carved surrounds featuring cable mouldings, a keystone, and carved foliate spandrels at ground floor level. An heraldic shield with a segmental moulded hood is positioned at first floor level. All windows use sandstone with hexagonal and diamond-leaded glazing.

The front elevation has three bays to the right of the entrance porch, with 12-pane sashes with horns and gauged brick heads on the ground floor, and three 9-pane sashes to the first floor. A band separates the ground and first floors. A parapet to the left of the shaped gable formerly had finials, now lost. A gablet with a bull's-eye window and a raised ornate 17th-century style surround is located upper right.

The garden front presents five bays with a central double glass door and glazing bars. Above is a segmental-headed tripartite sash with a keystone. Projecting shaped gables flank the central section, each featuring tripartite sashes, gauged brick heads, and keystones on the ground floor, and tripartite sashes with a fan patera and a round-headed arch with a keystone to the central part of the window on the first floor. A 12-pane sash with a gauged brick head and keystone is positioned to the right, above which is a 9-pane sash. A square sundial with the inscription 'TEMPUS FUGIT' and a fan patera is set within a simplified shaped gable. The garden front has a parapet with a moulded cornice and ball finials. Gable-end and axial stacks, mostly twin, are present.

The interior includes a Jacobethan hall, now ceiled. Six-panel doors with fielded panels are found throughout. The drawing room has a moulded plaster ceiling in a 17th-century style, a moulded cornice, and round-headed niches. Doric columns flank the access from a smaller room leading off the drawing room.