Badsey Hall (The Stone House)
The house was built in the late 17th century according to Pevsner. It was sold in 1866 by Joseph Woodward, along with associated farm buildings and two cottages in School Lane, plus Field Cottage and 46 – 50 High Street, to Captain John Pickup Lord, a prominent landowner of the time. In the censuses of 1851 and 1861 it was inhabited by farm bailiffs, but by 1871 it had become a girls’ boarding school run by the Misses Crossley and the house was known as “Montpellier”. The 1871 Census lists 25 pupils from all over Britain and Ireland, but by 1881 there were only 11 remaining. By 1891 the school had closed, and the house was inhabited by two market gardening families, the Sadlers and the Hartwells.
The 1911 Census described the house as “uninhabited”. The Badsey Parochial magazine of March 1914 announced that the Rev. J.J Lopes was about to open a home for little boys there called “St. Christophers”. This venture was short – lived, however, closing in the middle of 1915. By the time of the 1921 Census, Arthur Jones, retired market gardener and renowned Badsey antiquarian was living there and continued to do so until his death in1950. He bought it for £600 according to the Sale Particulars and renamed it The Stone House. Following extensive renovation completed in 1972 the subsequent owner renamed it Badsey Hall.