Hyde Court,Middle Hyde And Hyde End

Hyde Court is a large detached house, originally with a stable and coach house, built in the early 18th century. Further additions were made in the early 19th century, and substantial alterations occurred in the late 19th century. The building is constructed primarily of ashlar, with random and coursed rubble limestone, and has ashlar chimneys and a roof of stone slate and clay tile.

The main south front features four gabled sections with cross-roll saddle stones connecting the parapets. It has an eleven-window arrangement, with two windows behind each gable and a single window between them. All windows are timber cross-windows with continuous drip courses and leaded iron casements, except for the single two-light timber mullioned attic casement in each gable. A central doorway has fluted pilasters and a six-panel fielded door. A later doorway has been inserted where a window once stood. Two ridge chimneys have moulded caps. To the right, screen walls lead to the stable and coach house yard, featuring rusticated gate piers. A set-back stable block has segmental arched upper-floor casement windows and ground-floor alterations.

The rear of the house has four gables, some of which are partially hidden by a late 19th-century addition. A tall timber mullioned and transomed stair window is present. A further late 19th-century addition with a hipped roof incorporates various mullioned windows with small sashes, and a west-facing rectangular bay window. A further early 19th-century stable and coach house block is located to the left. The west end has a late 19th-century two-storey polygonal bay window with four-pane sashes and a hipped roof.

Inside, an 18th-century staircase has two turned balusters per tread, a swept moulded handrail with wreathed terminals, and a panelled dado with fluted pilasters.

The house was owned by the Beale family for a long time, and the late 19th-century alterations were undertaken for a school run by the educationalist Dorothea Beale.