Description

SJ 98 SE LYME HANDLEY C.P. LYME PARK

4/69 Terrace revetment walls,
up to 50m to the west
of Lyme Park.

GV II

Terrace revetment walls; some C17 masonry, tongue in front of west
front 1821 by Lewis Wyatt (repaired buttress dated 1877) with repairs
and rebuilds of C18, C19 and C20.

Northern element: coursed, squared buff sandstone rubble. Includes
end wall of C17 brewhouse, remainder C18 with 3-stage, dressed
sandstone buttresses later C19.

Central tongue: Hammer-dressed sandstone with massive raking
buttresses at western corners with semi-circular ashlar stone seats in
the top. 3-stage buttresses with raking coping.

Southern element: Coursed, squared buff sandstone rubble. 2-stage
rubble stone buttresses with raking tops.

The northern element is surmounted by spear railings listed with the
gate piers (q.v.). The remainder has a low plain railing set into the
coping stones (some numbered as at Hamper's Bridge (q.v.)) between
plain square piers.

Listing NGR: SJ9638782342

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q87577654

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)