Badley Parish

Formally a manor house and large early-sixteenth century mansion with courtyard plan, much of Badley Hall had been lost to storm or demolition by the middle of the eighteenth century to become a tenanted farm. It forms part of a settlement cluster with the parish church. The site also includes a sixteenth century dovecote, barn and bakehouse. A grand approach avenue, probably contemporary with the house, once connected the original eastern entrance front of the house to the Needham Market to Stowmarket road. Known as Badley Walk, the western section of the avenue has been replaced by hedges and the eastern end overgrown with trees and shrub, although the greenward survives and along the whole length of the approach there is a public footpath. Another avenue on the same axis to the west of the house is shown on an eighteenth century estate map. The ghost of garden enclosures surrounding the house survive and an ornamental garden canal, now in a degraded state, lies at right-angles to the house and flanks it to the south-west side.
House is not open to the public. Badley Walk is a public footpath.