Hidcote House

Hidcote House is a house that dates back to the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a steeply pitched roof covered with plain tiles. The house has a three-cell cross passage plan and is two storeys high.

On the ground floor, the entrance is located to the right of the centre, accessed through a 20th-century gabled porch that has a partially fielded and partially glazed six-panelled architraved door. There are three-light metal frame leaded pane casements with hoodboards. The first floor has four smaller leaded casements, some of which are part latticed, located to the left. An axial ridge stack is positioned to the left of centre, with its cap rebuilt. The gable end features pentice boards, partially cased in brick on the left, and an exposed side purlin on the right.

At the rear, the parlour end has leaded and latticed casements and a boarded door. The service end includes a 19th-century red brick and pantiled kitchen addition with a rebuilt internal stack, along with a lean-to attached behind. There is also a 20th-century two-storey flat-roofed addition at the rear centre.

Inside, there is a 17th-century panelled screen between the cross passage and the hall, along with an original chamfered doorway to the service end. The hall features a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and a fireplace bressumer, with some exposed studding and reused 17th-century panelling in the 20th-century rear addition. The first floor includes a five-light diamond mullioned window opening, traces of arched braces to cambered tie beams, and reverse curved arched bracing in the walling. The parlour chamber has an inserted 18th-century axial binding beam supported on curved brackets. The roof has not been inspected.