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One
of the grandest buildings in Cheshire, Lyme was originally a
Tudor house and transformed into an Italianate palace by the
Venetian architect Leoni. Parts of the Elizabethan interior still
survive, and can be seen in contrast with later rooms displaying
Mortlake tapestries and Grinling Gibbon wood - carving.
The house is
set in several hundred acres of peakland and woodland where deer
abound. It is bordered by a sunkenDutch garden, rose gardens
and a great conservatory set above an attractive lake.
The hunting
tower or " Cage " standing on a low ridge overlooking
the hall, offers the visitor the splendid view of the Cheshire
Plain, the whole of Greater Manchester and the foothills of Snowdonia.
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