Pair Of Gardener'S Cottages At Lyme Park

This is a pair of gardener's cottages built in 1871, possibly designed by A. Darbyshire for William Legh. The cottages are constructed from rock-faced buff sandstone and feature a Welsh slate hipped roof with a trefoil pierced slate ridge and two stone chimneys. The front is one storey and symmetrical with five bays. The end bays are blank, except for a date plaque on the right and the patron's initials on the left, both set in square recesses. The central entrance consists of an 8-board door with Jacobean iron hinges, flanked by single lights and sheltered by an open timber and glass porch supported by octagonal wooden posts on stone bases, featuring shaped angle braces and pierced spandrels. Above, there are two triangular gabled dormers. The second and fourth bays project slightly forward under a hipped roof and each has a pair of single casement windows.