Tithe Barn
Tithe Barn, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082484
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn
- Statutory Address:
- Tithe Barn, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082484
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tithe Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tithe Barn, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Tithe Barn, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kyre
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 62688 63540
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/09/2019
SO 66 SW
6/23
KYRE CP
Tithe Barn
(Formerly listed as Barn about 60 yards east of Kyre Park, KYRE PARK)
GV
II
Barn, now function room. Circa 1618 by William Harrison of Bromsgrove for Sir Edward Pytts; altered mid C20. Handmade brick on sandstone rubble base; plain tiled roof with stepped parapets and finials at gable ends.
Ten bays aligned east/west totalling 130 feet in length; wagon bays with opposed cart entries situated in fourth and seventh bays from west end. The smaller north entries have been blocked. There are single-bay wings with roofs slightly lower in height than the main range projecting from the second and ninth bays on the south side. Also buttresses with offsets at the bay divisions along the north elevation and flanking the central bay on the south side. Partly two storeys. Two tiers of ventilation slits throughout.
Main south elevation: the wagon bays have inserted C20 multi-paned windows and the westernmost one has a glazed double doorway with a flat canopy above. There is also a C20 door in the first bay from the west end. The wings have two-light chamfered mullioned ashlar windows on both floor levels. A C20 door has been inserted in the inner angle of both wings.
Interior: original roof structure survives. largely intact; it has collar and tie-beam trusses with large raking struts sloping inwards beneath the collar and a V-strut above. East of the easternmost wagon bay is a collar and tie-beam truss with two collars and have five struts beneath and three struts above the upper collar. C20 brick piers support additional tie-beams beneath the trusses of the central bays. There are two tiers of trenched purlins.
Scheduled Monument, together with dovecote (qv) about 109 metres north-east of Kyre Park House (qv).
(Country Life, xvii and xxiv, 1917; The Antiquary, xxi, 202, 261, xxii, 24, 50; VCH, IV, p 281; BoE, p 211).
Listing NGR: SO6268863540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 281
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 211
The Antiquary in The Antiquary, (), 24+50
The Antiquary in The Antiquary, (), 202+261
Country Life in Country Life, (1917)
Country Life in Country Life, (1917)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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