Pyrton Manor

Heritage listing

Details PYRTON SU6895 13/127 Pyrton Manor 18/07/63 GV II* House. c.1600-1610, probably for Edmund Symeon: C18 alterations. Random bond brick with stone quoins and dressings; old tile roof; brick stacks. E-plan with rear left wing. Late Elizabethan style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range of projecting wings flanking hall range with central 2-storey porch. Stone-moulded 4-centred doorway:moulded wood inner architrave with urn stops to early C17 studded door with original iron fittings. Rendered C18 architraves with raised quoins to 6-pane sashes with heavy glazing bars: first-floor windows in side wings are early C20 copies. Stone cyma-moulded plinth and string courses; moulded kneelers and coping to outer gabled ends. Gabled roof; moulded end stacks with octagonal flues to right and diamond flues to left; rear lateral stacks have octagonal flues; rebuilt end stack to rear left. Left side wall rebuilt c.1786 in grey brick with sashes. Rear elevation and wing have 2- and 3-light stone ovolo-moulded windows: 2-storey stair-turret adjoining inner side of rear wing has similar 3-light window over ovolo-moulded doorway. Mid C19 extension to rear wing incorporates early C17 bay window to left with similar 3-light window and crenellated parapet. Mid C19 dairy in similar style to rear right. Interior: hall to left of centre has mid C19 relief roundel of John Hampden over mid C19 stone fireplace: early C17 moulded stone fireplace above. Right service wing has early C17 moulded stone fireplace, and early C18 dog-leg with winders staircase with turned balusters on closed stringy 2 early C17 doorways with moulded wood architraves to first-floor rooms. Left parlour wing: rear wall of first floor room to front has early C18 panelling with fluted pilasters and Doric entablature fra

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.