Lyme House and Park. South of Disley. A mansion surrounded by formal gardens in the Peak district

The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Leghs of Lyme by marriage in 1388. it remained in the possession of the Legh family until 1946. The first record of a house on the site is in a manuscript folio dated 1465, but that house was demolished when construction of the present building began during the life of Piers Legh VII, in the middle of the 16th century. This house, by an unknown designer, was L-shaped in plan with east and north ranges; piecemeal additions were made to it during the 17th century. In the 1720s Giacomo Leoni, an architect from Venice, added a south range to the house creating a courtyard plan, and made other changes. While he retained some of its Elizabethan features, many of his changes were in mixture of Palladian and Baroque styles. During the latter part of the 18th century Piers Legh XIII bought most of the furniture which is in the house today. In the early 19th century the estate was owned by Thomas Legh, who commissioned Lewis Wyatt to restore the house between 1816 and 1822. Wyatt's alterations were mainly to the interior, where he remodelled every room.

[@rogerlangford2836]

Should come back now and see the beautiful herbaceous borders in foil bloom..... and of course the whole of the inside of the house, which isn't open on a Wednesday...

[@KamalKhuhawar]

thanks a lot.
I will.
end of September was in my mind.