Castle Hyde was granted to the Hyde family by Queen Elizabeth I in the late 16th Century, it was occupied by them until the mid-19th Century. They built the present house in the mid-1740s to a design by Abraham Hargrave, who also designed Christ Church, Fermoy. The Hydes sold the house in 1851 to John Sadler M.P., who resold it in 1862 to Sir John Becher, Bt., a member of the family which gave its name to the famous Grand National fence at Aintree, Becher's Brook