Park Wall Between Main Gateway and St Augustines Convent (Convent Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Boundary wall.
Park Wall Between Main Gateway and St Augustines Convent (Convent Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- deep-lancet-mint
- 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
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Park Wall Between Main Gateway and St Augustines Convent (Convent Not Included), Grosvenor Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 411 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19064, -2.8826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The park wall between the main gateway and St Augustine's Convent, which is not included in this listing, is part of the boundary wall of Grosvenor Park in Chester. It was built between 1865 and 1867 by architect John Douglas at the expense of the 2nd Marquis of Westminster for Chester City Council. The wall is constructed from squared snecked sandstone rubble and granite. It features a plinth with replaced railings opposite the lodge, and the wall rises to 2 meters high towards the lodge yard. There is an oak boarded door with ornate hinges set in a stop-chamfered opening with a lintel supported by brackets. The replaced railings extend along the weathered plinth as far as the gateway opposite Bath Street. Additionally, there are a pair of granite piers that diminish to an octagonal section, topped with twice weathered caps. The wall continues with minor openings leading to the grounds of St Augustine's Convent.
Local climate
Park Wall Between Main Gateway and St Augustines Convent (Convent Not Included) 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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