Description

LONDON ROAD
1.
5403
(east side)
Hyders Hall Gatwick Manor Inn
(formerly listed as Hyders
under Lowfield Heath)
TQ 23 NE 3/61 21.6.48
II*
2.
C15 open hall house altered circa 1600, 1700 and 1850. Formerly moated. Part of
the moat still exists on the west side. Two bay open hall of which one bay remains
with a cruciform crown post. (Extensions of 2 storeys red brick in English Bond
tiled roof to south. North it retains its Horsham stone slabs. Massive central
chimney-stacks. Three altered casements). At the west end the original panel and
post partition with moulded bressumer remains in situ. A floor was inserted
circa 1600 and a chimney constructed. At a later date the eastern portion of the
hall and the rest of the range east of it were demolished and a stone wall built
across the range a few feet east of the main truss dividing the hall. This wall of
local Sussex stone has galleting in its joints. The main truss with massive cambered
tie-beam, curved struts, crown post and 4 way struts to collar and central purlin
remains in a bedroom above the ground floor room on the east side. Tie beam of
western truss also exposed in west wall of bedroom. The ceiling in the ground floor
room inserted circa 1700 has stop chamfered cross beams and joists. In the north
wall towards the west end is a circa 1600 2 storey bay window with wood mullions,
ovolo section, 4 lights wide, surmounted by a gable with mantled bargeboard and
carved pendant. The original diamond mortices for the earlier tall hall window
remain. The timber framing and plaster infilling of the south wall of the hall range
can be seen from the passage behind the staircase. The 2 storey west end of the
C15 range was taken down and rebuilt circa 1850 in red brick. About 1600 a 2 storey
range with attics running east and west, was built parallel to the hall range a few
feet to the south and linked to it at the west. Brick walls with stone mullioned
windows. The 4 light window with transom and mullions of ovolo section in the upper
storey of the east wall is original. The windows in the south wall are modern but
the brickwork is original. Enough space was left between this range and the hall
for a projecting staircase to be constructed on the north side circa 1600. This
has turned balusters and newel posts with carved pendants and finials. The range is
divided by a central chimney, giving 2 rooms to each floor. The 2 east rooms, ground
and first floor, retain the original stone fireplaces with moulded jowls (double
ogee) and head of circa 1600. Ceilings have exposed joists. In the west ground
floor room are 2 moulded and stop chamfered ceiling beams. Oak chimney beam but
fireplace bricked up. C20 additions east of hall range and west end of north side.
A family De la Hyde and Atte Hyde occurs in documents of 1263, 1332 and 1378
(See Place - Names of Surrey).
(See Joan M Harding, "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" p 46).

Listing NGR: TQ2712439332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532190

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