Terrace Revetment Walls, Up To 50 Metres To The West Of Lyme Park

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.