Tithe Barn

The Tithe Barn, originally built around 1618 by William Harrison of Bromsgrove for Sir Edward Pytts, is now used as a function room. It features handmade brick construction on a sandstone rubble base and has a plain tiled roof with stepped parapets and finials at the gable ends.

The barn is 130 feet long and consists of ten bays aligned east to west. It includes wagon bays with opposed cart entries located in the fourth and seventh bays from the west end, while the smaller north entries have been blocked. There are single-bay wings on the south side, which have slightly lower roofs than the main structure, projecting from the second and ninth bays. The north elevation has buttresses with offsets at the bay divisions and flanking the central bay on the south side. The building is partly two storeys high and features two tiers of ventilation slits throughout.

On the main south elevation, the wagon bays have C20 multi-paned windows, and the westernmost bay includes a glazed double doorway with a flat canopy above. A C20 door has been added in the first bay from the west end. The wings contain two-light chamfered mullioned ashlar windows on both floor levels, and a C20 door has been inserted in the inner angle of each wing.

Inside, the original roof structure remains largely intact, featuring 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, there is a collar and tie-beam truss with two collars, five struts beneath, and three struts above the upper collar. C20 brick piers support additional tie-beams beneath the trusses of the central bays, and there are two tiers of trenched purlins.

The Tithe Barn is a Scheduled Monument, along with the dovecote located about 109 metres northeast of Kyre Park House.