1-5, Pytts Cottages

1-5, Pytts Cottages, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349564
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: 1-5, Pytts Cottages
Statutory Address:: 1-5, Pytts Cottages, Kyre, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8RW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349564
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: 1-5, Pytts Cottages
Statutory Address 1:: 1-5, Pytts Cottages, 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.

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:: 1-5, Pytts Cottages, 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 62525 63344

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/06/2020

SO 66 SW 6/21

KYRE CP KYRE Nos 1-5 Pytts Cottages (formerly listed as Nos 1-4 Hospital Cottages KYRE PARK, previously listed as Pytts Almshouses)

6.10.52 GV II Eight almshouses, now divided into five houses. Founded in 1716 by will of Anne Pytts, with mid-C20 alterations. Handmade brick with plain tiled roofs, gable-end parapets and brick stacks at rear. U-plan. Single storey and attic with gabled dormers and three-course band at attic storey level. Openings all have gauged flat heads.

Main north-west elevation: ground floor windows are the original wooden mullion and transom ones. Central range has four windows and four doorways with moulded architraves and C20 doors, two of which are partly glazed. Above the central two doors and windows is a painted timber pediment which contains a circular motif enclosing three shields and the word "SALOP". There is a ground floor window and a leaded attic light at the gable ends of both of the wings, and above the attic light is an additional brick band of two courses. There is a blocked doorway in both angles with the central range. At the rear of the central range are additional service wings.

The building was founded for eight widows selected from Kyre Parish and the seven surrounding parishes.

Listing NGR: SO6252563344

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Legacy System number:: 150708
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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 285
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 281
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

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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.