Grosvenor Rowing Club Boathouse (The East Boathouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Boathouse. 2 related planning applications.
Grosvenor Rowing Club Boathouse (The East Boathouse)
- WRENN ID
- dusk-stronghold-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Boathouse
- Address
- Grosvenor Rowing Club Boathouse (The East Boathouse), the Groves, CH1 1SD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 411 661
- Coordinates
- 53.18881, -2.88226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grosvenor Rowing Club Boathouse, also known as the East Boathouse, was built in 1877 by T.M. Lockwood for the Grosvenor Rowing Club, likely funded by the first Duke of Westminster. This two-storey boathouse features a timber frame with brick nogging and plaster panels, topped with a brown tile roof.
The front includes a verandah supported by a vigorously moulded turned corner-post on the right, flanked by two slender cast-iron columns and a small timber-framed stairwell on the left. There are three sets of boarded doors, two of which have hit-and-miss timber vents leading into the boathouse. A balcony with four heavily-moulded turned posts and timber rails enhances the façade. The large jettied front gable is accentuated by a canted oriel window in the attic. The right end of the building is partly framed and partly constructed of brick, while the rear is entirely brick. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Grosvenor Rowing Club Boathouse (The East Boathouse) receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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