The Hydes

The Hydes is a house with origins dating back to the 15th or 16th century, featuring alterations and additions from the 18th century and later. It is constructed with a timber frame and parget plaster, topped with a red plain tiled roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and includes three red brick chimney stacks on the northern range and one on the eastern range. A fire has damaged part of the northern range.

The house is two storeys high, with the roof hipped to the right. The north face has three small paned vertically sliding sash windows on the first floor, and 19th-century bays on the ground floor. The central entrance features a four-panel, two-light door with a moulded surround, corner patera, moulded frieze, and a flat canopy.

On the west face, there is a three-window range of small paned casements, a full-length red tiled verandah, and two tall tripartite windows with a central glazed door and sidelights. Inside, notable features include moulded and stopped bridging joists in the northern range, a stick staircase with a wreathed handrail, and reveal panels on some windows. Some panelled doors have moulded surrounds, while several vertically boarded doors with beaded edges retain original ironmongery. The house also has chamfered jowled storey posts and 18th-century moulded segmental arches in the landing and kitchen.