THE CAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1277283
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: THE CAGE
Statutory Address:: THE CAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1277283
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: THE CAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE CAGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CAGE

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District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SJ 96636 83070

Details

SJ 98 SE LYME HANDLEY C.P. LYME PARK

4/73 The Cage.

14/4/1967 II*

Formerly hunting tower cum gatehouse, later park keeper's house and prisoners' lock-up: Origins c.1580, taken down 1734 by George Platt, rebuilt 1737 by Peter Platt, perhaps to a design by Leoni for Peter Legh X. Coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble with ashlar sandstone dressings, felted roof and cupolas (originally stone) and formerly 2 chimneys. In plan, square with attached square corner towers. 3-storeys symmetrical fronts. Chamfered plinth, raised rusticated quoins, applied ashlar band at first floor. Windows in towers in raised, plain surrounds (now blocked but with 12-pane sashes originally). Semi-circular headed doorcases on 3 faces, with rusticated surrounds and Tuscan pilaster capitals to imposts with raised plain, window surrounds above (all blocked). Projecting heavily-moulded entablature with ashlar blocking course with central balustrading (probably added by Wyatt, now damaged). On towers, stepped bases to domed cupolas (now C20 wooden replacements) 3 square sundials on moulded sills between 1st and 2nd storeys, read: east face, "Vive Hodie"; south face, "Remember now the creator in the days of thy youth"; west face, "Cras minus aptus eris". Interior: 4 Tuscan antae with banded rustication in ground floor. Diagonal flight leads to spiral, stone staircase in south-west corner tower. Remainder of interior now removed but first floor was the main room with a panelled oak ceiling with huge, central, carved rosette. The stairs were in one corner, a fireplace, a lavatory, and a prison room in the others.

All the elements used in the rebuild can be found in the south and west ranges of Lyme Park (q.v.) but it is not certain if the C16 structure (paralled by an example at Chatsworth) was totally demolished or not.

Listing NGR: SJ9663683070

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Legacy System number:: 407227
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.