Park Wall and Piers to East of Hobbys Well to Dee Lane and Headlands is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Park wall and piers.

Park Wall and Piers to East of Hobbys Well to Dee Lane and Headlands

WRENN ID
deep-iron-sedge
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
Park wall and piers
Address
Park Wall and Piers to East of Hobbys Well to Dee Lane and Headlands, Grosvenor Park
OS grid reference
SJ 412 663
Coordinates
53.19096, -2.88011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The park wall and gate piers east of Hobby's Well, extending along Dee Lane and The Headlands, were constructed between 1865 and 1867 by the architect John Douglas, funded by the 2nd Marquis of Westminster for Chester City Council. The wall is made of squared snecked sandstone rubble and granite. It features a plinth and replaced railings from Hobby's Well to the southeast gateway, which has two chamfered piers that taper to octagonal-section blunt-pointed caps. There is a squared snecked sandstone rubble retaining wall that stands 2 meters high between the southwest gateway and an inserted gateway at the junction of The Headlands with Dee Lane. A similar wall follows The Headlands, rising with the slope of the alley towards the main park gateway.

Local climate

Park Wall and Piers to East of Hobbys Well to Dee Lane and Headlands 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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