Billy Hobbys Well
BILLY HOBBYS WELL, GROSVENOR PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375825
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Billy Hobbys Well
- Statutory Address:
- BILLY HOBBYS WELL, GROSVENOR PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375825
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Billy Hobbys Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- BILLY HOBBYS WELL, GROSVENOR PARK
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:
- BILLY HOBBYS WELL, GROSVENOR PARK
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 41277 66202
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK 1932-1/6/133 (South side) 10/01/72 Billy Hobby's Well
GV II
Pumphouse pavilion for water garden in Grosvenor Park. 1865-67. By John Douglas at the expense of the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City Council. Sandstone ashlar, red and buff. Octagonal on square plinth; each cardinal face has a pointed-arched opening with a pair of polished red granite columns attached to each jamb, with C13-style capitals; voussoirs with carved roses; wrought-iron bars with spiked crooks; recessed circlet in each canted side, with armorial sheafs and portcullises; carved cove forming cornice beneath eaves of light-grey slate spire surmounted by a copper fish as weathervane, on a lead finial. (Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes: 1865-1867: PASSIM; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 47; 50; 81).
Listing NGR: SJ4127766202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469804
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 47, 50, 81
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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