Description

SJ 98 SE LYME HANDLEY C.P. LYME PARK

4/62 The Dark Passage,
joining the Orangery to
Lyme Park.

GV II

Passage to Kitchen and enclosed store-rooms under east terrace: 1815
by Lewis Wyatt for Sir Thomas Legh. Coursed rubble sandstone, some
brick and sandstone slabs used in later addition. Curving
barrel-vaulted passage to kitchen where doorcase has semi-circular
rusticated head. Extended above ground where lit by rebated
single-lights divided by iron bar and with wedged and cambered lintels
with false keystones. Rebated, rectangular doorcase at north end
re-used from early C19. Enclosed store-rooms are lit by ovolo-moulded
mullioned transomed windows and a semi-circular head door leads down
steps into a game store of 4 brick, groined vaults spring from a
central square pillar. The outer wall alongside the Orangery carries
carved stone urns.

The vaulted room was originally designed to contain a dairy and a
circular shell grotto.

Listing NGR: SJ9648982374

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q87577645

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings