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Lyme Park| House in Disley, Cheshire, England. It is partly Elizabethan with 18th- and 19th-century additions by Giacomo Leoni (c. 1686–1746) and Lewis Wyatt (1814–17). The house stands in 530 ha/1309 acres of park and moorland, and was given to the National Trust in 1947. The largest house in Cheshire, it has four centuries of period interiors. |
| Its collections include tapestries, carvings by Grinling Gibbons, and a collection of clocks. The house is set in gardens with an orangery by Wyatt, a lake, and a Dutch garden. |
| Lyme Park is managed by the National Trust, but is partly financed by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. |
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