The Swiss Cottage

SK 0643-0743 FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK

12/94 The Swiss Cottage 3/1/67 GV II

Cottage now restaurant. c 1840. By Thomas Fradgley of Uttoxeter. Orange brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; plain tile roof; ashlar central stack with octagonal shafts. Tudor Gothic style; central range aligned east-west facing north with flanking wings aligned north-south, C20 extension to the south. 2 storey gabled wings with shaped barge boards flanking a central range of one storey and attic; 1:1:1 bays, the wings have chamfer mullioned windows containing lights with 4- centred heads and sunken spandrels under a flat arch, those to the ground floor have 3 lights, those to the first floor have 2 lights; central ground floor bay window with hipped roof, central gabled dormer window with 4-centred head containing Y-tracery. Entrance to right hand return of crosswing through a door with square head and raised surround. This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register. B.o.E., p.58.

Listing NGR: SK0750643182