Stydd Hall And Attached Garden Wall

Stydd Hall is a tower house, now a farmhouse, situated in the Parish of Yeaveley. It likely dates back to the medieval period, with significant alterations in the 17th century, around 1840, and in the 20th century. Originally built for the Knights Hospitallers, it is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and red brick, with stone dressings and quoins. The roof is slate, with large circular stone ridge stacks built of coursed rubble.

The building is primarily three storeys high, with a basement and a small, two-storey tower to the north. The east facade features steps leading to a central 17th-century doorcase, which has pilasters and a bolection moulded entableture, now housing 20th-century double-glazed doors and a plain overlight. Vestiges of a segmental pediment are visible. Canted bay windows, added around 1840, flank the central doorway and extend upwards, with staff-moulded lights featuring round lobed trefoil heads and metal glazing bars. Above are matching bay windows with embattled parapets. A 2-light window sits between them, with a flat hoodmould above. Further windows are positioned above, with a shallower central 2-light window and flanking 3-light windows.

The south elevation has a similar two-storey bay window on the west side, with pointed heads to the lights instead of trefoils, and a considerable amount of medieval masonry at ground floor level. The west elevation retains its 17th-century windows, including a 3-light recessed and chamfered window to the ground floor, and similar 2-light windows to the first and second floors. Recessed stair windows, with 19th-century octagonal leaded panes, are positioned between them. The north elevation features a central two-storey tower with a 20th-century window to the west. There's a blocked recessed and chamfered mullion and transomed window to the north and east of the tower. A blocked doorcase is visible immediately above the tower roof, which has ridgeback coped embattled parapets.

The interior of the hall was largely altered around 1840 and later. The only surviving 17th-century feature is a moulded finial on the newel post at the bottom of the third flight of stairs.

Attached to the base of the tower on the north side is a high garden wall, likely dating from the 18th century. It is built with a brick face to the west side and a stone face to the east side, topped with flat stone coping, running north and curving to the east.