Badwell Ash Hall

This is a former farmhouse, originally called 'High House', dating to the early and later 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The oldest part of the building is a three-storey block aligned north-south, constructed of Tudor red brick in English bond with plain tiles. It features crenellations along the east side, with crow-stepping at the north and south gables. There are two moulded stone string-courses and tall, polygonal buttresses with stone onion tops at all corners. A section of the north gable-end wall is in 19th-century brick, and the range appears truncated at that end. The east side has a plain external chimney stack with three very fine shafts of ornate moulded brick, each distinct with shaped and moulded bases and crenellated tops. A projecting stair wing extends from the north end of the east side, featuring ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom windows to each half landing, cutting through the string-courses, with a lower four-light window and upper three-light window, both having triangular stone pediments and rusticated plaster surrounds. An inconspicuous, likely secondary, entrance is located between the stair wing and the chimney stack, with a plain plank door and a three-light mullioned window above. The south gable end exhibits ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom windows on each floor: six lights on the ground floor, five on the first floor, and three at the top, the latter being pedimented. The interior ground floor has panelled dadoes and flooring in the entrance hall made of large pamments, alternately red and white with black dots between them. A heavy staircase, in an Edwardian Jacobean style, is also present. Adjoining the brick range to the west is a two-storey 17th-century timber-framed range, rendered and with plain tiles. This range is divided into two sections by an internal chimney stack. To the east of the stack, the timber framing is of higher quality, but contains reused timber, suggesting elements from an earlier building predating the brick range. Large 19th-century red brick extensions, built in an imitative Tudor style, extend to the north and south, obscuring sections of the timber framing and creating a complex roofline.