Pair of Gardener's Cottages at 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. Cottage.

Pair of Gardener's Cottages at Lyme Park

WRENN ID
hallowed-threshold-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Pair of Gardener's Cottages at Lyme Park, Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley, Cheshire East
OS grid reference
SJ 966 825
Coordinates
53.34005, -2.05119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Pair of Gardener's Cottages at 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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