RYTON HOUSE

RYTON HOUSE, LEAMINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1034887
Date first listed:: 31-May-1995
List Entry Name:: RYTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RYTON HOUSE, LEAMINGTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1034887
Date first listed:: 31-May-1995
List Entry Name:: RYTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RYTON HOUSE, LEAMINGTON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RYTON HOUSE, LEAMINGTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Rugby (District Authority)
Parish:: Ryton-on-Dunsmore
National Grid Reference:: SP 38892 74106

Details

RYTON ON DUNSMORE

1725/4/10002 LEAMINGTON ROAD 31-MAY-95 RYTON HOUSE

II House, now a club. 1806-7; by Edward Gyfford for Stephen Freeman and built by a Coventry builder Richard Booth; altered in 1850 by J.L. Ackroyd of Coventry; altered and extended after 1945. Sandstone ashlar front, painted render and brick at sides and rear. Pantile nipped roof

PLAN: Square central block containing entrance and stair hall at the front and dining room behind with bed chambers above; the flanking single-storey wings have bowed fronts, the wing east contains the drawing room and the west wing the kitchens. In 1850 the wings were raised to two storeys. Single-storey additions at front, rear and sides after 1945. An Italianate style villa.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. 1:2:1 bays. Centre with plain pilasters and stone balustrades in front of attic windows under deep eaves; ground floor garden doors concealed behind late C20 flat-roof extension. Flanking 2-storey bowed bays with stringcourses. Sash windows without glazing bars, some C20 replacement windows. At rear small square attic sashes and late C20 large single-storey extension. Single-storey wing on east side with doorway with traceried overlight. INTERIOR: Plan largely intact and many surviving original features including a fine geometric cantilevered staircase with a good wrought-iron balustrade and stick balusters to attic. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices. Joinery includes moulded doorcases and panelled doors and reeded arches on landing. Similar elliptical arches in diving room which has moulded plaster ceiling and cornice. Drawing room has moulded plaster cornice, key-pattern frieze and fluted pilasters with Composite capitals to alcove. Ryton House corresponds almost exactly to the 2 perspective views and floor plans of a house in Gyfford's "Designs for Elegant Cottages and Small Villas" [1806]. The plans of Ryton in the Warwick Records Office bear the same date. Gyfford earned his living as an accomplished, if materially poor, draughtsman working for other architects. Only one other house is known to have been built by him, Bellevue House, Walthamstow, Essex, and that was demolished in 1936.

SOURCES: Drawings in Warwick Record Office; CR350/18/1-12. Pigot's Directory for Coventry 1822-3.

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.