Badsell Park Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating to approximately the mid-17th century, it was significantly remodelled and extended in the late 19th century. The original 17th-century core has a timber frame, with the ground floor rebuilt in brick and the first floor clad in tile hanging. The later 19th-century additions are also brick and tile-hung, topped by peg-tile roofs, with brick stacks.

The house faces north and has an L-shaped layout. The main block is two rooms wide, with a central entrance leading into a hall containing the staircase. The right (west) end of the main block and a rear wing, roofed on a north-south axis, are remnants of the original 17th-century house. This was likely originally a three-room lobby entrance plan house, though the north service end was truncated and the northern room re-roofed at right angles during the late 19th-century remodelling, reducing the original parlour to a kitchen. The original axial stack of the 17th-century house remains, as does some of the wall framing, and a likely later rear (east) outshut. A 20th-century single-storey kitchen, heated from an end stack, adjoins the rear wing at the south end.

The front of the house, with an asymmetrical four-window facade, has gables to the left and right; the right-hand gable is a 1980s addition. A late 19th-century open gabled porch is positioned to the left of centre, featuring timber struts in the gable and a half-glazed front door. A canted bay window to the left has a hipped roof and 2-light casements with two panes per light, dating to the late 19th or 20th century. The other windows – two to the right of the porch and four on the first floor – are similar 2- and 3-light casements. The rear right wing has a half-hipped roof at the south end and a catslide roof to the outshut, along with a stack featuring staggered triple shafts.

Inside, the 17th-century core retains an original fireplace to the axial stack, with a chamfered oak lintel and brick jambs (one jamb rebuilt and the lintel reduced in length). A plaque above the lintel is inscribed in capitals "The right honable the earle of Westmoreland TFK 1712.” The farm was formerly part of the Westmorland estate. The fireplace also retains a 19th-century chimney crook. Original wall framing from the 17th century is visible on the first floor, with wall posts featuring formed jowls. Original floorboards also survive. The 19th-century staircase in the entrance hall has turned balusters.

The attic has a plaster ceiling covering the 17th-century roof, which is of a side purlin construction. Access to the apex of the roof was not possible during the 1989 survey.