Parrot House at North End of Broad Walk
PARROT HOUSE AT NORTH END OF BROAD WALK, EAST GARDEN TO HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138401
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parrot House at North End of Broad Walk
- Statutory Address:
- PARROT HOUSE AT NORTH END OF BROAD WALK, EAST GARDEN TO HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138401
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parrot House at North End of Broad Walk
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARROT HOUSE AT NORTH END OF BROAD WALK, EAST GARDEN TO HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARROT HOUSE AT NORTH END OF BROAD WALK, EAST GARDEN TO HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton and Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41594 60870
Details
SJ 4160 EATON C.P. EAST GARDEN TO HALL Eaton Park
9/84 Parrot House at north end of Broad Walk
GV II
Former Parrot House, 1881-3, by Alfred Waterhouse for 1st Duke of Westminster. Yellow terracotta. Designed in the form of a circular colonnaded Ionic temple with shallow domed roof. Frieze of swags above the colonnade; concentric balustrades above the colonnade and the inner drum. Flight of 11 steps to south entrance; projecting heating chamber to north. Interior: 4 semi-circular niches in central chamber and one on each side of lobby to heating chamber. Frieze of griffins below clerestory; caryatids between clerestory windows carry the dome. The Parrot House was incorporated in Detmar Blow's redesign of the east garden (1911) as the north terminal of the main cross axis.
Listing NGR: SJ4159360870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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