Kyre Park
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| Kyre Park | |
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| Location | Kyre, Worcestershire |
| Coordinates | 52°16′7″N 2°32′57″W / 52.26861°N 2.54917°W |
| OS grid reference | SO 626 635 |
| Website | www |
| Designated | 28 February 1986 |
| Reference no. | 1000889 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 18 April 1966 |
| Reference no. | 1179391 |
  Location of Kyre Park in Worcestershire | |
Kyre Park is a privately owned country house, parkland and gardens, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, England. The parkland and gardens are listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens,[1] and the house is a Grade II listed building.[2] The house is closed to the public; the park and gardens are open daily.[3]
A royal licence to create a deer park at Kyre was granted in 1275. It is thought that its area was 500 acres (200 ha), this being reduced to 180 acres (73 ha) in the late 18th century.[1]
The manor was sold by Lord Compton in 1575, when the house was in a ruinous condition, to Sir Edward Pytts. He repaired and extended the house, and his son Sir James Pytts continued the work. It remained in the family, passing to Edmund Pytts, then on his death in 1781 to his brother Jonathan. On the death of Jonathan's widow in 1832 it passed to his second cousin William Lacon Childe of Kinlet. His son, Rev. Edward Baldwyn-Childe, became the owner in 1880, and it passed to his widow Frances Christina Baldwyn-Childe on his death in 1898.[1][2][4]
In the 1930s it passed to Birmingham Council, and in 1965 to the Spastics Society. It became privately owned again in 1993.[1]
