Lyme Park & Gardens (NT)

Type: Historic House / Palace

Great National Trust estate with lavishly decorated house and fine gardens.

Originally a Tudor house, Lyme was transformed by the Venetian architect Leoni into an Italianate palace. Some Elizabethan interiors survive and contrast dramatically with later rooms. The state-rooms are adorned with Mortlake tapestries, Grinling Gibbons woodcarvings and an important collection of English clocks.

With its 17-acre Victorian garden, 19th century Orangery, sunken Dutch garden and 'Reflection Lake', Lyme Park’s beautiful gardens are of great historic importance. As part of Cheshire’s Year of Gardens, Lyme will be hosting a series of outdoor theatre productions in the garden during the summer season, and on Sunday afternoons during June and July, visitors will be entertained to 'Brass and Blooms' – a series of informal concerts in a specially constructed bandstand, given by local bands and school groups.

One of Cheshire's Gardens of Distinction in Cheshire's Year of Gardens 08.