Listed Building: THE HYDE (403974)

SY 49 SE BOTHENHAMPTON WALDITCH ROAD (south side) 2/261 The Hyde - II Large country house. Dated 1853 over door and c1923. Ashlar limestone, but service wing rendered,slate roofs. A compact main block with central projecting full-height porch facing west, and lower service wing projecting back right: the latter rebuilt in 1923. Two storeys and attics, carefully detailed Tudor style with stone mullioned and transomed windows, string courses, and saddle-back coped parapets and gables. Entrance front symmetrical. 2:1:2 windows rising to half gables at outer bays and full gables flanking central gabled porch with diagonal buttresses and Tudor doorway with pediment gable over. Right return has one-storey canted bay with perforated parapet 3-light above and 2-light to gable; further gable set back, and large service wing to right. Left return has canted bays, one through two storeys and one through one. Complex roofscape with very lofty octagonal chimneys in detached shafts in groups of 2, 3, and 4. Lower, service wing in pimplified detail generally. Drawing room is in Adam style and Dining Room ornate Jacobean, with large buffet, and walls with Russian stamped and gilt leather. The house is of interest as having been the house of the Gundry family, the founders of the Bridport rope and net works in the C17. Listing NGR: SY4789792556

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Dec 6 2018 9:57AM