Hyde Hall

Hyde Hall is a late 16th-century house, now a farmhouse, with a porch dated 1625 and 18th-century additions. It is constructed of timber framing, roughly dressed stone, and rendered, with a brick addition and a roof of graduated stone slates. The house has a T-shaped plan, featuring a 2-storey porch projecting from a cross-passage, and a 1-bay brick addition to the right. A gabled crosswing projects to both the front and rear.

The porch, set within an angle, has a moulded, segmental-headed outer doorway, a Tudor-arched inner door, a 1625 date plaque beneath a Hyde coat of arms, a 5-light mullion and transom first-floor window, moulded band, sundial and cornice. The main hall (to the left) has two weathered buttresses and two cross windows with segmental heads. A 6-light mullion and transom first-floor window is present, along with coved eaves. Similar 6 and 7-light windows are found on the crosswing, which has a later door. The left gable exposes square-panel timber framing, with a small 2-storey gabled wing attached.

The rear elevation shows a similar door, a buttress, a 4-light mullion window, and coved eaves. A notable feature is the 2-storey bay at the upper end of the hall; it has coved jetties at both first-floor and eaves levels, corner posts with carved capitals, a 3-light mullion and transom ground-floor window, and a 10-light window extending the full width of the upper level. The crosswing incorporates a 20th-century door on the ground floor, an enlarged first-floor window, and an owl hole in the gable. The property is distinguished by three ridge chimney stacks, with the principal stack featuring two diagonally set brick shafts.

All original windows have diamond-section timber mullions and leaded casements. Inside, a large inglenook fireplace has a chamfered bressumer beam backing onto the cross passage, which retains studded oak doors at each end. The hall and the chamber above are entirely panelled, in places with Jacobean enrichment. Chamfered ceiling beams and cross-beams have stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A plain staircase has been inserted into the cross passage. Hyde Hall is significant for its plan, timber framing in the north-west tradition, and well-preserved internal features. A 19th-century engraving of the house by J. Booker appears in "A History of the ancient chapel of Denton."