A Cheshire development – Alderley Park – is beginning to take shape with the launch of The Ride and The Serpentine.

Created by luxury specialist PH Homes, this residential enclave near to fashionable Alderley Edge promises to ‘redefine Alderley living’; and these two new stages will add a wide variety of exclusive properties to the scheme.

The Ride occupies a southern corner of the 400-acre former country estate of the Stanley family, with 14 homes inspired by the architecture of local villages, arranged around a newly-created ‘green’ adjacent to the estate’s original cricket pitch and walled garden.

Entering through an imposing gateway with pillars topped by imperious stone eagles, it will feature a new landmark ‘lodge’ incorporating a distinctive octagonal ‘tower’, and includes the Gardener’s Cottage, a Victorian home originally built for the estate’s Head Gardener, transformed into a four bedroom home.