Badliss Hall

Badliss Hall is a house with origins possibly dating back to the 16th century, significantly altered and extended in the 17th, 18th, and later centuries. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a hipped red tiled roof featuring an off-centre right chimney stack. It comprises three distinct wings: a two-storey, jettied double wing to the rear left, hipped and gabled, with a single chimney stack; a one-storey and attic gabled wing to the rear right with two dormer windows and a gable end chimney stack; and a front range with panel pargetting and a moulded plinth. The front range has four first-floor and three ground-floor small-paned vertically sliding sashes, with a small-paned three-light casement on the ground floor right. A recessed two-panel door is positioned between the left and central windows, set within a four-light moulded surround. Three curved brackets support the rear jetty, and an Insurance plaque is located above the jetty. Much of the timber frame is concealed, but visible features include jowled storey posts, heavy stop-chamfered bridging joists with run-out stops in the kitchen and old bakehouse. Two original nailed and moulded doors remain. The walls display halved arched bracing, while the front range has boxed-in bridging joists and a fireplace with fluted columns and a fret frieze. An archway leads to the hall. Other re-used decorative elements include barley sugar stair rails, a four-armed octagonal crown post with moulded capitals and base used as a newel, and an old prison door. A cellar is constructed of narrow bricks. The house and associated barns were depicted on an estate map dating from 1773. William Lugar, a yeoman, resided there in 1796.