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Latitude: 53.3383 / 53°20'17"N
Longitude: -2.054 / 2°3'14"W
OS Eastings: 396499
OS Northings: 382374
OS Grid: SJ964823
Mapcode National: GBR GY3V.31
Mapcode Global: WHBBB.FC35
Plus Code: 9C5V8WQW+89
Entry Name: The Dark Passage, Joining the Orangery to Lyme Park
Listing Date: 17 November 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1277338
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407199
ID on this website: 101277338
Location: Cheshire East, Cheshire, SK12
County: Cheshire East
Civil Parish: Lyme Handley
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Disley St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Architectural structure Corridor
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
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