The cage was designed in the 18th centuary, it replaced the game-keeper's cottage, as part of the house and park renovations for the Leigh family headed at that time by Piers Leigh. The cage was a summer house for the ladies to view the hunting activities in the Deer Park, red deer have been at Lyme since medieval days, and the Cage is in a mock Gothic style. Piers Leigh also updated the Elizabethan hall in the Palladian/Georgian style using the Italian architect Leoni. You obviously approached it from the Peak forest canal/Disley side. The Lantern was a pure folly with no purpose however I have heard that in the 1920s the gentlemen looked out from the breakfast room and if they could see the lantern clearlyif so the weather good enough for a days hunting.
The cage was designed in the 18th centuary, it replaced the game-keeper's cottage, as part of the house and park renovations for the Leigh family headed at that time by Piers Leigh. The cage was a summer house for the ladies to view the hunting activities in the Deer Park, red deer have been at Lyme since medieval days, and the Cage is in a mock Gothic style. Piers Leigh also updated the Elizabethan hall in the Palladian/Georgian style using the Italian architect Leoni. You obviously approached it from the Peak forest canal/Disley side. The Lantern was a pure folly with no purpose however I have heard that in the 1920s the gentlemen looked out from the breakfast room and if they could see the lantern clearlyif so the weather good enough for a days hunting.