Park Lodge
PARK LODGE, GROSVENOR PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375828
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Park Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- PARK LODGE, GROSVENOR PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375828
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Park Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK LODGE, 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:
- PARK LODGE, 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 41176 66342
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK 1932-1/6/135 (North side) Park Lodge
GV II
Park-keeper's lodge, now park office. 1865-7. By John Douglas at the expense of the second Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City Council. Tooled squared snecked red sandstone rubble, timber frame with plaster panels and red-brown tile roofs. High Gothic moving towards Vernacular Revival. PLAN/EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, T-shaped with single-storey office wing; the lower storey is stone, the upper storey framed. The east front has ornate timber-framed gabled porch to door of 2 boarded panels on wrought-iron hinges; a 2-light mullioned casement with stiff-leaf colonnettes, left; a canted bay window projecting front gable, right. Upper storey on corbel-table has a small 6-pane casement above porch, a 12-pane casement in hipped dormer left and a 20-pane cross-window in front gable right; four crowned figures with armorial shields; small framing; jettied gable with curved braces; shaped and carved bargeboards; finial. The left wing has small panels and herringbone struts; a chimney of 6 attached round flues by junction of ridges. The south side, left, has bay window as to east front, 4 crowned figures bearing shields, cross-window in gable, shaped and carved bargeboards, finial. The single-storey wing, formerly with public lavatories, has boarded door with pair of casements left and painted-arched window right, all in moulded surrounds; a small cross-gabled wing at left end. The north side, right, to Union Street has a 2-light casement and a 1-light casement to the ground floor with C13-style details and an unpierced herringbone-strutted first floor; the rear gable has a cross-window to first floor; a pair of C13-style lights to stair. INTERIOR: much of Douglas's detailing: doorcases and most doors; dogleg newel stair; some cornices. (Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes: 1865-1867: PASSIM; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 160).
Listing NGR: SJ4117666342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 160
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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