Park Wall and Gate Piers From Love Street North to Hobbys Well South
PARK WALL AND GATE PIERS FROM LOVE STREET NORTH TO HOBBYS WELL SOUTH, GROSVENOR PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375829
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Park Wall and Gate Piers From Love Street North to Hobbys Well South
- Statutory Address:
- PARK WALL AND GATE PIERS FROM LOVE STREET NORTH TO HOBBYS WELL SOUTH, GROSVENOR PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375829
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Park Wall and Gate Piers From Love Street North to Hobbys Well South
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK WALL AND GATE PIERS FROM LOVE STREET NORTH TO HOBBYS WELL SOUTH, GROSVENOR PARK
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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.
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 WALL AND GATE PIERS FROM LOVE STREET NORTH TO HOBBYS WELL SOUTH, 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 40972 66157
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4066 GROSVENOR PARK 1932-1/6/132 (South side) 10/01/72 Park wall and gate piers from Love Street north to Hobby's Well south (Formerly Listed as: GROSVENOR PARK Boundary Wall round Grosvenor Park)
GV II
Boundary wall, with gate piers, of Grosvenor Park from Love Street at its junction with Union Street, north, and Billy Hobby's Well (qv) by Grosvenor Park Terrace, south. 1865-1867. By John Douglas at the expense of the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City Council. Squared snecked sandstone rubble and granite. Plinth and replaced railings between Love Street and the north-west gateway which has square granite piers diminishing to octagonal section beneath ornate moulded finials; plinth and replaced railings between north-west gateway and west gateway, opposite St John Baptist churchyard, which has 2 chamfered granite piers diminishing to octagonal section towards blunt-pointed caps; rock-faced squared snecked sandstone wall up to 2m high and stepping down with slope of path towards Dee; south-west gateway inserted to give access from the Groves and the Suspension Bridge (qv); south wall, partly a retaining wall, approx 1.6m high; south gateway to Grosvenor Park Terrace and 2 chamfered granite piers diminishing to blunt-pointed octagonal caps; plinth and replaced railing between gateway and Billy Hobby's Well (qv). (Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes: 1865-1867: PASSIM; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 46-48).
Listing NGR: SJ4097266153
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469808
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 46-48
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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