BILLY HOBBYS WELL

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:: BILLY HOBBYS WELL, GROSVENOR PARK

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Date:: 2002-03-13
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 469804
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Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 47, 50, 81

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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.