Badwell Ash

Badwell Ash Hall, also known as High Hall, stands about a mile outside the village and is a house of ornate chimneys. The restoration and refurbishment of the building was mainly due to the Payne family who acquired the house in 1852 and made it again into a gentleman's residence. They were great benefactors and provided a school, a reading room. Hester Payne known as Lady Bountiful organised the distribution of soup and plum pudding each Christmas, where the villagers trooped up to the Hall to receive their gifts.