Hyde Farmhouse

Hyde Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-16th century. It was floored and heated in the mid to late 17th century, and then encased and extended in the mid-18th century. It was altered and reroofed in the 19th century, and further altered in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed and has a red brick casing, with a steeply pitched slate roof. Originally, it was a 3-bay open hall, with a mid-17th century 3-bay lobby entry extension creating an L-shaped plan.

The main front of the house, on the inner angle of the L, features an original range to the right. In the left bay is a tripartite sash window with a cambered head on the ground floor and a 16-pane sash window on the first floor; a blocked cambered head marks the position of a former cellar window. The right bay is an 18th-century addition, containing a front entrance and a 16-pane sash window. The 17th-century range to the left has a 19th-century gabled porch, flanking three-light timber glazing bar casement windows with cambered heads. The first floor has 3:2:2 light casements. A central ridge stack was rebuilt in the 19th century. The rebuilt gable end to the right has an extruded stack and two-light casements.

The rear elevation of the original range is the original entrance front, and features two external stacks, one from the 18th century and one from the 19th century, with two diagonal shafts, and lower 1 and 3-light casement windows. One window has a sill set at ground level and segmental head, with a larger, similar window above it with a transom. The roof is hipped at the outer angle of the L. The rear of the 17th-century range has an entrance and three-light casements, the ground floor with cambered heads.

Attached to the left end of the 17th-century range is a single-story outbuilding with dentilled eaves and a hipped slate roof.

Inside, you will find stop-chamfered binding beams and four-centred arched doors leading to the original screens passage. There is a mid-18th century staircase with vase balusters and a moulded handrail. The roof structure includes cambered tie beams, queen struts, collars clasping purlins, curved windbraces and braces in the walling.