Description

SJ 32 SE
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RUYTON-XI-TOWNS CP
Pradoe including attached service ranges and outbuildings

(formerly listed as Pradoe)

19.1.52

GV
II*
Small country house. 1785 by John Dovaston for Revd. Pritchard, extended 1810-11 and 1812 by John Carline for Thomas Kenyon; further alterations by John Hiram Haycock in 1816; later additions and alterations. Red brick; hipped slate roof with central open well.

Three storeys with moulded stone eaves cornice continued as dentilled brick eaves cornice to right return and chamfered brick plinth; cellar. Five window front, glazing bar sashes with gauged heads except for centre windows on first and second floors, which have shouldered and eared architraves with rosette emblems to corners and to cill brackets to first-floor window.

Central entrance; mid-C19 half-glazed double doors with stained glass to borders. Two windows to left infilled. Single-storey hip-roofed addition to right by Carline has two tall 15-paned glazing bar sashes with plain stone wedge lintels. Left return has full-height canted bay to centre; glazing bar sashes with gauged heads and French window to centre of canted bay also with gauged head. Single-storey addition to left, also by Carline, has low-pitched hipped roof concealed by moulded stone eaves cornice and three tall fifteen-paned glazing bar sashes with plain stone wedge lintels.

Main range has ridge, valley, integral and end stacks, mainly with tops rebuilt in mid C19 yellow brick. Late C18 and C19 service ranges to rear. Mixed red brick and sandstone block construction; slate roofs, some hipped. Two storeys with toothed eaves cornices. Mainly glazing bar sashes but some C19 casements; ridge and end stacks.

Single-storey sandstone block projection to rear on left with hipped graded slate roof and toothed eaves cornice houses game larder. Two-light stone mullion window lighting cellar to rear of right return of main block may be part of an earlier house.

Interior: Open-well stone staircase in central hall by John Carline (1803-5): decorated cast-iron balusters, open string and inlaid wreathed and ramped handrail. Two sandstone fluted Doric columns with antae in former dining room (now library) also probably by Carline. This room has inset C19 bookcases with canvas maps which can be rolled down in front of them. Concealed door leads through to dining room extension. Drawing room extension has monument to Henry, son of Thomas Kenyon by Thomas Carline, plaster copy of which is in Pradoe Church (qv). C18 cast-iron fireplaces, plaster cornices (some with egg and dart or other moulding), panelled doors (some with decorated surrounds) and panelled window shutters throughout.

Service ranges retain an unusually large amount of late C18 and C19 features and furnishings: bread ovens, cast-iron sinks and cooking ranges, larders, shelves etc. Two former kitchens including one to basement. Game larder has slate shelves and sink. Sandstone-walled cellars.

Set in a fine parkland landscape. The building history of the house and its associated estate buildings is exceptionally well documented.

(Colvin (1978), pp. 187, 408; information from owner, Col. Kenyon (November 1986).

Listing NGR: SJ3583924844

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539737

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