Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1054637
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings
Statutory Address:: Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings

Interior from the entrance and looks towards the altar. A beautiful roof and all in very good condition. Bright view — Uploaded by Michael Jones This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1054637
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings
Statutory Address 1:: Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ruyton-XI-Towns
National Grid Reference:: SJ 35842 24848

Details

SJ 32 SE 8/123

RUYTON-XI-TOWNS CP Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings

(formerly listed as Pradoe)

19.1.52

GV II* Small country house. 1785 by John Dovaston for Revd. Pritchard, extended 1810-11 and 1812 by John Carline for Thomas Kenyon; further alterations by John Hiram Haycock in 1816; later additions and alterations. Red brick; hipped slate roof with central open well.

Three storeys with moulded stone eaves cornice continued as dentilled brick eaves cornice to right return and chamfered brick plinth; cellar. Five window front, glazing bar sashes with gauged heads except for centre windows on first and second floors, which have shouldered and eared architraves with rosette emblems to corners and to cill brackets to first-floor window.

Central entrance; mid-C19 half-glazed double doors with stained glass to borders. Two windows to left infilled. Single-storey hip-roofed addition to right by Carline has two tall 15-paned glazing bar sashes with plain stone wedge lintels. Left return has full-height canted bay to centre; glazing bar sashes with gauged heads and French window to centre of canted bay also with gauged head. Single-storey addition to left, also by Carline, has low-pitched hipped roof concealed by moulded stone eaves cornice and three tall fifteen-paned glazing bar sashes with plain stone wedge lintels.

Main range has ridge, valley, integral and end stacks, mainly with tops rebuilt in mid C19 yellow brick. Late C18 and C19 service ranges to rear. Mixed red brick and sandstone block construction; slate roofs, some hipped. Two storeys with toothed eaves cornices. Mainly glazing bar sashes but some C19 casements; ridge and end stacks.

Single-storey sandstone block projection to rear on left with hipped graded slate roof and toothed eaves cornice houses game larder. Two-light stone mullion window lighting cellar to rear of right return of main block may be part of an earlier house.

Interior: Open-well stone staircase in central hall by John Carline (1803-5): decorated cast-iron balusters, open string and inlaid wreathed and ramped handrail. Two sandstone fluted Doric columns with antae in former dining room (now library) also probably by Carline. This room has inset C19 bookcases with canvas maps which can be rolled down in front of them. Concealed door leads through to dining room extension. Drawing room extension has monument to Henry, son of Thomas Kenyon by Thomas Carline, plaster copy of which is in Pradoe Church (qv). C18 cast-iron fireplaces, plaster cornices (some with egg and dart or other moulding), panelled doors (some with decorated surrounds) and panelled window shutters throughout.

Service ranges retain an unusually large amount of late C18 and C19 features and furnishings: bread ovens, cast-iron sinks and cooking ranges, larders, shelves etc. Two former kitchens including one to basement. Game larder has slate shelves and sink. Sandstone-walled cellars.

Set in a fine parkland landscape. The building history of the house and its associated estate buildings is exceptionally well documented.

(Colvin (1978), pp. 187, 408; information from owner, Col. Kenyon (November 1986).

Listing NGR: SJ3583924844

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Legacy System number:: 256675
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 187
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 35 Shropshire,

Legal

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