Terrace Revetment Walls, Up to 50 Metres to the West of Lyme Park is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Revetment walls.

Terrace Revetment Walls, Up to 50 Metres to the West of Lyme Park

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1983
Type
Revetment walls
OS grid reference
SJ 963 823
Coordinates
53.33806, -2.05585
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The terrace revetment walls, located up to 50 meters to the west of Lyme Park, feature a mix of architectural styles and materials. Some of the masonry dates back to the 17th century, while a tongue in front of the west front was constructed in 1821 by Lewis Wyatt. There are also repairs and rebuilds from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

The northern section is made of coursed, squared buff sandstone rubble and includes the end wall of a 17th-century brewhouse. The remainder of this section is from the 18th century and features three-stage, dressed sandstone buttresses that were added in the late 19th century.

The central tongue is constructed from hammer-dressed sandstone and has large raking buttresses at the western corners, which support semi-circular ashlar stone seats on top. These buttresses are also three-stage with raking coping.

The southern section is similar to the northern, made of coursed, squared buff sandstone rubble, and has two-stage rubble stone buttresses with raking tops.

The northern element is topped with spear railings that are listed with the gate piers. The rest of the walls have a low plain railing set into the coping stones, with some numbered like those at Hamper's Bridge, positioned between plain square piers.

Local climate

Terrace Revetment Walls, Up to 50 Metres to the West of Lyme Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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