The Swiss Cottage

The Swiss Cottage is a restaurant that was originally built as a cottage around 1840 by Thomas Fradgley of Uttoxeter. It is constructed of orange brick with an ashlar plinth and dressings, topped with a plain tile roof and features an ashlar central stack with octagonal shafts. The building is designed in the Tudor Gothic style, with a central range that runs east-west and is flanked by two storey gabled wings that are aligned north-south. There is a 20th-century extension to the south.

The gabled wings have shaped barge boards and consist of three bays each. The wings feature chamfered mullioned windows with four-centred heads and sunken spandrels beneath flat arches; the ground floor windows have three lights, while those on the first floor have two lights. The central ground floor bay window has a hipped roof, and there is a central gabled dormer window above with a four-centred head and Y-tracery. The entrance is located on the right-hand return of the crosswing, accessed through a door with a square head and raised surround. This building is part of the significant garden layout at Alton Towers, which is registered at Grade I on the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Gardens Register.