Tithe Barn

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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