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Sinista
06-05-2012, 08:51 AM
Hi all, this is my 1st posting on here of an explore I did last year.

Villa number 1 is a manor house in Warwickshire which was last a British legion Social club. It’s a Grade 2 listed property which is a surprise looking at how it has been left to the vandals. I used to go fishing here when I was a kid so was shocked at how it looks now. Yet another amazing building in the area being destroyed.
Heres a little history on the site.
Ryton House is an early-19th-century villa set within grounds covering 6 hectares. Features include a small park, a lake, and a flower garden.
The site was part of an Enclosure Award of just over 10 hectares which was made to the Wilcox family in 1760. Stephen Freeman built the present villa in 1806-7. A map of 1820 indicates that by that date the basic form of the surviving landscape had been achieved. The site was until recently a Royal British Legion Club
Ryton House corresponds almost exactly to the 2 perspective views and floor plans of a house in Gyfford's "Designs for Elegant Cottages and Small Villas" [1806]. The plans of Ryton in the Warwick Records Office bear the same date. Gyfford earned his living as an accomplished, if materially poor, draughtsman working for other architects. Only one other house is known to have been built by him, Bellevue House, Walthamstow, Essex, and that was demolished in 1936

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Now this last picture in the grounds at first I thought was a well, but as you can see it has a ladder leading down. Unfortunately it was blocked with rubble a couple of feet down.........

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