Chestnut Cottages And Estate Workshops

SJ 98 SE LYME HANDLEY C.P. LYME PARK

4/74 Nos 1, 2, 3 & 4 Chestnut Cottages and estate workshops.

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Estate workers' houses and workshops, now includes cafeteria: 1904 by C H Reilly of Liverpool for 2nd Lord Newton. Washed, pebble-dashed red brick, red tile roof and 8 plastered chimneys. L-shaped in plan. Vernacular Revival style.

East range: one and 2-storey, symmetrical 13-bay front (a, b, a, c, a, b, a). End bays 2-storey projections under half-hipped, mansard roof, 5-light casements with glazing bars below, 3-light above. Similar elements flank central door which has dormer and mansard roof above. Body of range of one storey under steeply pitched roof with 3-light casements.

North range: 3 units step down hill. To left 3-bay house in mansard roofed end pavilion, with 3-light dormers. Then 5-bay former electricity generating shed with 3-light, wooden casements with glazing bars (the centre light dropped) and single light dormers under hipped gables in pitched roof. To right 4-bay, former boiler house and laundry with buttresses between bays and similar dormers in pitched roof. Joined to boiler house by flue is an English bond, red-brick square chimney with blind, square sandstone arcade on brackets, at top below moulded cornice.

Listing NGR: SJ9621482579