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
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Park wall and piers
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK 1932-1/6/134 (East side) 10/01/72 Park wall and piers east of Hobby's Well to Dee Lane & Headlands (Formerly Listed as: GROSVENOR PARK Boundary Wall round Grosvenor Park)

GV II

Wall and gate piers to Grosvenor Park from Billy Hobby's Well (qv) east, north along Grosvenor Park Terrace and Dee Lane and west along The Headlands. 1865-67. 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 from Billy Hobby's Well to south-east gateway which has 2 chamfered piers diminishing to octagonal-section blunt-pointed caps; squared snecked sandstone rubble retaining wall 2m high between south-west gateway and inserted gateway at junction of The Headlands with Dee Lane; similar wall to The Headlands, stepping up with the slope of the alley towards the main park gateway (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: SJ4129366345

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