Barns About 50 Metres South South East Of Hyde Hall Farm House

SANDON HYDE HALL TL 33 SW 7/64 Barns about 50m SSE 27.5.68 of Hyde Hall Farm House (formerly listed as East Barn at Hyde Hall) GV II Two barns. Late C16. Red brick casing to timber frame. Slate and tiled roofs. 5 bays and 7 bays forming an L on plan. 2 storey and attic gable end facing house: plinth, ground floor entrance, first floor two 3 light double chamfered rendered brick mullioned windows, chamfered oculus in attic, coped gable parapet, all as if reflecting design of earlier Hyde Hall (q.v.). Outer elevation on left return has plinth, an entrance, 3 ground floor 2 light double chamfered oak mullioned windows, 1 more on first floor, tiled roof slope, hip at rear angle to outer elevation of far barn has inserted casements, an open bay. 1 bay added to far left, weatherboarded double doors, slate roof. Right return from gable end facing house has inserted casements and an open bay, slate roof slope. Inner angle has a square projection with a weatherboarded gabled head. Inner elevation of far barn has 2 double doors, a weatherboarded open shed projecting towards the house. Interior: braces from jowled posts to tie beams, angled struts clasp lower purlins, collars to principals with upper butt purlins. (East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Transactions, 1905,vol.3, pt.1, p.36: RCHM 1910).

Listing NGR: TL3418032671