OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO)

OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO), CAUGHALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230120
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO)
Statutory Address:: OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO), CAUGHALL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230120
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO)
Statutory Address 1:: OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO), CAUGHALL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OAKFIELD (HEADQUARTERS OF CHESTER ZOO), CAUGHALL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Upton-by-Chester
National Grid Reference:: SJ 41404 70158

Details

SJ 47 SW UPTON-BY-CHESTER C.P. CAUGHALL ROAD (West Side)

2/38 Oakfield (Headquarters of Chester Zoo).

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GV II

Formerly large house, now offices and restaurant: short wing c1885 by E A Ould, remainder rebuilt 1892 by H Beswick, all for B Chaffers Roberts, some C20 alterations. English garden wall bond Ruabon brick with blue brick diapering and red sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and 4 brick chimneys with Tudor-style stacks. 2 and 2½-storey, 4-bay west front. Left 2 bays are earlier parts with canted, castellated 2-storey bay window with mullioned and transomed windows in coped and finialled dormers above. To right is a projecting gabled porch with shaped and coped gable with a griffin finial. Doorcase with basket-arched head. Similar windows to remainder but with basket-arched and ogee heads to the lights. Longer south garden front in similar style of 3 different projecting coped gabled masses. Interior: Boardroom with fielded mahogany panelling and carved wooden frieze. Wooden fireplace flanked by fluted pilasters and egg and dart moulding. Some stained glass in the style of Burne Jones. Staircase removed but arcade and balustrading survive upstairs. Room to left of hall has fielded mahogany panelling divided by pilasters. Pedimented doorcase with acanthus frieze. Panelled ceiling and massive chimney breast with motto on bressumer and on Tudor-style stone fireplace with De Morgan tiles.

The estate was bought by George Mottershead in 1930 to house his private animal collection which with the founding of the North of England Zoological Society in 1934 led to the present zoo, now the second largest in Britain.

Listing NGR: SJ4140470158

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Legacy System number:: 404826
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.