Walls and Piers to Front of Greenbank

WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT OF GREENBANK, EATON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375778
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:
Walls and Piers to Front of Greenbank
Statutory Address:
WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT OF GREENBANK, EATON ROAD
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Date:
2001-07-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375778
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Walls and Piers to Front of Greenbank
Statutory Address 1:
WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT OF GREENBANK, EATON ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WALLS AND PIERS TO FRONT OF GREENBANK, EATON ROAD

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 40946 64538

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ46SW EATON ROAD 1932-1/4/81 (East side) 10/01/72 Walls and piers to front of Greenbank (Formerly Listed as: EATON ROAD Stone wall and gate piers to Green Bank)

GV II

Walls and gate piers to frontage of Greenbank (qv). Probably c1930 by Sir Charles Reilly for Peter Jones. Yellow sandstone ashlar. Wall approx 1 metre high has a row of shallow panels beneath the moulded cornice. Rectangular piers to three pairs of gates have plinths, long panels to front, side-wings with volutes and cornices; square piers to ends and corners of walls. The railings and gates by the Birmingham Guild are lost; simpler replacements designed by Cheshire County Architect's Department c1980 have bottom rail, dogbars, double middle rail divided by circlets, Greek key-pattern between double top-rails. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).



Listing NGR: SJ4094664538

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Legacy System number:
469757
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

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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.

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