The Dark Passage, Joining The Orangery To Lyme Park

SJ 98 SE LYME HANDLEY C.P. LYME PARK

4/62 The Dark Passage, joining the Orangery to Lyme Park.

GV II

Passage to Kitchen and enclosed store-rooms under east terrace: 1815 by Lewis Wyatt for Sir Thomas Legh. Coursed rubble sandstone, some brick and sandstone slabs used in later addition. Curving barrel-vaulted passage to kitchen where doorcase has semi-circular rusticated head. Extended above ground where lit by rebated single-lights divided by iron bar and with wedged and cambered lintels with false keystones. Rebated, rectangular doorcase at north end re-used from early C19. Enclosed store-rooms are lit by ovolo-moulded mullioned transomed windows and a semi-circular head door leads down steps into a game store of 4 brick, groined vaults spring from a central square pillar. The outer wall alongside the Orangery carries carved stone urns.

The vaulted room was originally designed to contain a dairy and a circular shell grotto.

Listing NGR: SJ9648982374