diff --git a/docs/config_whitespace.html b/docs/config_whitespace.html
index 6ca9d50eb..ece002e83 100644
--- a/docs/config_whitespace.html
+++ b/docs/config_whitespace.html
@@ -461,9 +461,7 @@
           <a
           href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#RPAREN">RPAREN</a>,
           <a
-          href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#SUPER_CTOR_CALL">SUPER_CTOR_CALL</a>,
-          <a
-          href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#TYPECAST">TYPECAST</a></td>
+          href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#SUPER_CTOR_CALL">SUPER_CTOR_CALL</a>
 
           <td><a
           href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#CTOR_CALL">CTOR_CALL</a>,
@@ -474,9 +472,7 @@
           <a
           href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#RPAREN">RPAREN</a>,
           <a
-          href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#SUPER_CTOR_CALL">SUPER_CTOR_CALL</a>,
-          <a
-          href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#TYPECAST">TYPECAST</a></td>
+          href="api/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/TokenTypes.html#SUPER_CTOR_CALL">SUPER_CTOR_CALL</a>
 
         </tr>
       </table>
diff --git a/docs/releasenotes.html b/docs/releasenotes.html
index 4801bcd73..77cbfa211 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes.html
+++ b/docs/releasenotes.html
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@
 
         <li class="body">NumberFormatException in MagicNumberCheck (bug 748913)</li>
 
+        <li class="body">Removed broken support for checking typecasts from
+        ParenPadCheck (bug 750348)</li>
+
       </ul>
 
 
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/ParenPadCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/ParenPadCheck.java
index 2e21dba2c..1f1666722 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/ParenPadCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/whitespace/ParenPadCheck.java
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.AbstractOptionCheck;
  *  {@link TokenTypes#METHOD_CALL METHOD_CALL},
  *  {@link TokenTypes#RPAREN RPAREN},
  *  {@link TokenTypes#SUPER_CTOR_CALL SUPER_CTOR_CALL},
- *  {@link TokenTypes#TYPECAST TYPECAST}.
  * </p>
  * <p>
  * An example of how to configure the check is:
@@ -83,7 +82,6 @@ public class ParenPadCheck
                           TokenTypes.LPAREN,
                           TokenTypes.CTOR_CALL,
                           TokenTypes.SUPER_CTOR_CALL,
-                          TokenTypes.TYPECAST, // TODO: treat this?
                           TokenTypes.METHOD_CALL,
         };
     }
@@ -91,12 +89,16 @@ public class ParenPadCheck
     /** @see com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check */
     public void visitToken(DetailAST aAST)
     {
-        if (aAST.getType() == TokenTypes.RPAREN) {
-            processRight(aAST);
-        }
-        else {
+        // Strange logic in this method to guard against checking RPAREN tokens
+        // that are associated with a TYPECAST token.
+        if (aAST.getType() != TokenTypes.RPAREN) {
             processLeft(aAST);
         }
+        else if ((aAST.getParent() == null)
+                 || (aAST.getParent().getType() != TokenTypes.TYPECAST))
+        {
+            processRight(aAST);
+        }
     }
 
     /**