Kyre Park House

Kyre Park House, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179391
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1966
List Entry Name:: Kyre Park House
Statutory Address:: Kyre Park House, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179391
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1966
List Entry Name:: Kyre Park House
Statutory Address 1:: Kyre Park House, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Kyre Park House, 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 62619 63538

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/09/2019

SO 66 SW 6/22

KYRE CP KYRE Kyre Park House

(Formerly listed as Kyre Park, Kyre Park)

18.4.66

GV II Country house in landscaped park. Fourteenth-century origins; repaired and extended circa 1600 for Sir Edward Pytts by John Chaune of Bromsgrove; remodelled for Sir Edmund Pytts by W and D Hiorne, 1753-56; restored and extended c1880 with further major alterations circa 1940. Some original sandstone rubble walling survives. Mainly brick, rendered to south-west, with ashlar plinth and dressings. Slate roofs, partly hipped behind plain parapets with ball finials (these survive only at eastern corners) and brick stacks with moulded ashlar caps. Roughly T-shaped plan.

Original part lies to west and was probably a fortified house. Circa 1600 a hall was added to the north-east. In the mid-eighteenth century a new south front was added and the west range was remodelled. The building was extended to the east in the late nineteenth century and in the twentieth century the sixteenth-century hall was demolished, a new north front built and further alterations made to the south and east fronts. Two storeys and attic with ashlar plinth and modillion cornice at attic storey level.

West elevation: 1:3:1 bays; the central bays break forward slightly and are pedimented. The ground floor windows have moulded ashlar architraves and keyblocks. The outer bays have fifteen-pane sashes, first floor twelve-pane sashes and six-pane attic windows. The central part has large ground floor fifteen-pane sashes that reach to plinth level, first floor twelve-pane sashes and two-light attic casements. The main entrance is situated at the centre of the north elevation and has a large re-sited Georgian style portico of probably late nineteenth-century date.

Interior: very little survives of the eighteenth century interiors apart from the principal staircase. This is built of softwood and has a large open well, slender turned balusters, a moulded wreathed handrail, panelled dado and Chinese Chippendale style fretwork detailing. Part of the late sixteenth century stair-case has been re-used at attic storey level and has large square newel posts with shaped finials, moulded handrails and shaped, pierced splat balusters.

Kyre park was the seat of the Pytts family from 1576 to the early twentieth century.

(Country Life, xvii and xxiv, 1917; The Antiquary, xxi, p 202, 261, xxii, 24, 50; Colvin, H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 1978; VCH, IV, p 274-81; BoE, p 210).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 150709
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 274-81
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 210
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1917)
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1917)
'The Antiquary' in The Antiquary, (), 202 261
'The Antiquary' in The Antiquary, (), 24+50
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.