Shepherd'S Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Belvedere/house.
Shepherd'S Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-flue-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- Belvedere/house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 98 SE LYME HANDLEY C.P. LYME PARK
4/75 Shepherd's Cottage.
II
Formerly belvedere, later house: later C17. Rendered, coursed, squared, sandstone rubble, with sandstone dressings. Collapsed Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone chimney. Square in plan. 2-storey, single bay fronts under cross-gabled roof. All openings now blocked but windows originally 3-light, rebated, chamfered stone mullions (only some of which survive), some in upper storey may have been changed to sashes. Chamfered stone doorcase in south face. Interior: Shows that first floor was the main room with fine (but deteriorating) C17 plaster overmantel, the centre with an armorial shield, bordered by twisted foliage and pilasters.
Similar buildings can be seen in the garden to the east and on 2 hills to the south of Lyme Park (q.v.) in a painting of C1690.
Listing NGR: SJ9567881526
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