Hyde Hall Farm House

SANDON HYDE HALL TL 33 SW 7/63 Hyde Hall Farm House 9.6.52 (formerly listed as Hyde Hall) GV II House. C18 rebuilding of a larger house of c.1560 built for W. Hyde. Stock brick with some early red brick and timber framing. Tiled roof. Almost symmetrical 2:3:2 facade probably reflects earlier hall and cross wings arrangement. 2 storeys. Ground floor: entrances in bays flanking centre, that to left has a C20 doorcase with reeded pilasters and a dentilled hood with a panelled door, that to right has a plain reveal with a segmental head. To centre a large 5 light casement, 2 glazing bar sashes to left in shallow reveals, to right 3 and 2 light casements, all with segmental heads. First floor flush frame casements, leaded lights, 5 lights to centre, otherwise 2 lights. Internal stack at right end. Left end hipped with a wing, possibly of early construction, extending to rear with a slightly taller ridge. External stack on 2 bay left return with a straight joint between bays, towards rear a ground floor tripartite sash, first floor sash, flush frames. Right gable end is English bond red brick, oversailing courses to steeply pitched gable. To rear: wing to right has an internal end stack to gable end, an entrance with an open timber porch. Gabled dormer in catslide roof over outshut to inner elevation with a 2 light segmental headed casement. Some early red brick to rear of main range, entrance to right, scattered casements, lean-to outshut to centre. Projecting to left of centre a 2 storey and attic gabled wing, 3 light casements, gauged brick flat arched heads on ground floor, segmental heads on first floor and to 2 light attic case- ment. (East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Transactions, 1905, vol.3, pt.1, p.36: VCH 1912: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3415732746