Wickhambrook Parish

With a history dating back to the medieval period, the present moated Badmondisfield Hall dates back to the fifteenth or early-sixteenth century and replaced an earlier house. It once stood in a medieval deer park that still existed in the sixteenth century and much of it appears to have been converted into a landscape park. In the late-eighteenth century it had a western drive flanked by an avenue of trees that appears to have been replaced by a wide avenue on the central axis of the house running north-east to south-west. A visually dramatic causeway through three ponds lay at it northern end and a viewing point once existed at the southern end. Today the three ponds have become one with the loss of the causeway and much of the parkland is now arable fields. A main, possibly fifteenth century, bridge crosses the moat. One arm of the moat appears to have been straightened to create an ornamental ‘canal’ with a further ‘canal’ outside the moat to the west. The house underwent an extensive modernisation during the Georgian period, with further twentieth century changes.
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