Swiss Cottage

PARISH OF CHATSWORTH CHATSWORTH PARK SK 27 SE 3/88 Swiss Cottage II Cottage. 1839, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Stone slate roof, the slates of diamond shape. Two ashlar stacks. Deeply overhanging on elaborate bracketed eaves with decorative valancing. Two storeys. T-plan. West elevation has a projecting gabled bay to left with bowed front. Round-arched window to each floor with gothick glazing bars. The upper window with decorative hoodmould. The gable also curves forward and has elongated brackets and valancing, painted in blue and white. To the right an open porch with round-arched doorway with panelled door. Timber porch with a circular column at the corner and palisaded parapet. To the right a round-arched window to each floor, the upper one in a gabled half dormer with decorative gable. Gothick glazing. Half hipped gable end to south. To the right a blind wall with curved coped parapet. To the left a curved single storey wing with one similar window and set in front a shallow 'veranda' with palisaded parapet rising to a gable. Plain glazing bar sashes to rear. Designed as an eye-catcher to be seen across the lake. The Gardens and Park are included on the Gardens Register at Grade I. Sources: G F Chadwick The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.

Listing NGR: SK2734670105