Description

SY 49 SE
2/261

BOTHENHAMPTON
WALDITCH ROAD
(south side)
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: SY4789092555

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522948

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