Benton End is the C16th house Cedric Morris lived in from 1939-82 and which was then a focus for a group of painters and writers that included 'Dickie' Chopping, Denis Wirth-Miller, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Stephen Spender and Ronald Blythe. The latter described the atmosphere there as 'robust and coarse, and exquisite and tentative all at once. Also faintly dangerous.' It was a very male atmosphere, quite different from the more domestic one at Great Bardfield or Charleston; it's one that we shall be hearing a lot about over the next few years because the magnificent Pinchbeck Charitable Trust has bought the house and given it to the Garden Museum (more details here and here). The restoration of both house and garden is well under way and soon Benton End will be as much an East Anglian mecca as Charleston is in Sussex.