Gatwick Manor Inn Hyders Hall

A 15th-century open hall house, significantly altered around 1600, 1700, and 1850, now forming part of the Gatwick Manor Inn. Originally, the house was moated, and a section of the moat remains on the west side. The original structure comprised two bays of an open hall, with one bay still visible and retaining a cruciform crown post roof. The north face is clad in Horsham stone slabs, while the south side features two-storey red brickwork in English bond with a tiled roof. Massive chimney stacks are a prominent feature.

The west end retains the original partition made of panel and post with a moulded bressumer. Around 1600, a floor was inserted and a chimney constructed. Later, the eastern portion of the hall and the section of the building east of it were demolished, and a Sussex stone wall was built a few feet east of the main truss, dividing the hall. This wall incorporates galleting in its joints. The main truss, with a massive cambered tie-beam, curved struts, a crown post, and four-way struts to the collar and central purlin, is visible in a bedroom above the ground floor room on the east side. The tie beam of the western truss is also exposed in the west wall of a bedroom. The ceiling in the ground floor room, dating to around 1700, features stop-chamfered cross beams and joists.

A circa 1600 two-storey bay window with wood mullions (oval section, four lights wide) and a gable with a mantled bargeboard and carved pendant is set into the north wall towards the west end, with diamond mortices revealing the location of a taller, earlier hall window. Timber framing and plaster infilling can be observed from the passage behind the staircase. The 15th-century western end was taken down and rebuilt around 1850 in red brick.

Around 1600, a two-storey range with attics was constructed parallel to the hall range, a few feet to the south, and connected to the hall at the west end. This range has brick walls and stone mullioned windows. An original four-light window with transom and ovolo-section mullions, located in the upper storey of the east wall, remains. Modern windows are present on the south wall, although the brickwork is original. Sufficient space was left between this range and the hall to allow for the construction of a projecting staircase on the north side, also around 1600. This staircase features turned balusters and newel posts with carved pendants and finials. The range is divided by a central chimney, creating two rooms on each floor. The original stone fireplaces with moulded jowls (double ogee) and heads, dating to around 1600, remain in the two east ground and first-floor rooms. These rooms also feature exposed joists. The west ground floor room has two moulded and stop-chamfered ceiling beams, with an oak chimney beam that has been bricked up. 20th-century additions are present to the east of the hall range and the west end of the north side. Documents mention a family named De la Hyde and Atte Hyde starting in 1263.