Hatch House

Hatch House is a country house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in 1908 by architect Detmar Blow for the Benett-Stanford family. The house is constructed of dressed limestone and features a tiled roof with a three-gabled west front and ashlar stacks with moulded cappings. Its rectangular plan shows remnants of a larger house that was partly demolished in 1770.

The west front is two-storey with seven windows and has a slightly recessed central section of three bays. This section includes a three-bay round-arched loggia with channelled rustication on the ground floor, flanked by shell-headed niches, one of which is dated 1670. Above, there is a plat band at the first floor level with three cross windows and a central gable featuring a two-light mullioned casement. There are also 20th-century dormers on either side. The flanking cross wings have two 18-pane sash windows in moulded architraves on both floors, with single casements in the attics.

The left return has two 8-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, flanked by blind windows, and an attic gable with a two-light mullioned casement and 20th-century dormers. The right return features four 18-pane sash windows in moulded architraves on both floors, including one blind window on the first floor, with a gable that has two two-light casements. The rear of the house has a 19th-century gabled porch and 8-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, while the cellar includes two-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows that are unglazed.

Attached to the rear left is a single-storey kitchen range with a tiled roof. The lead rainwater heads are dated 1908. The interior was not accessible during the survey, but it is reported that the fittings date from Detmar Blow's remodelling, including six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, some raised panelling, and bolection moulded marble fireplaces. A plaque in the loggia commemorates Lawrence Hyde, whose son became the Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor in 1660; memorials related to him can be found in Tisbury Church of St. John the Baptist.