Park Wall and Gate Piers from Love Street North to Hobbys Well South 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 and Gate Piers from Love Street North to Hobbys Well South
- WRENN ID
- broken-oriel-gold
- 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 and Gate Piers from Love Street North to Hobbys Well South, Grosvenor Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 409 661
- Coordinates
- 53.18923, -2.88487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall and gate piers of Grosvenor Park, located from Love Street at its junction with Union Street to Billy Hobby's Well by Grosvenor Park Terrace, were built between 1865 and 1867. Designed by John Douglas and funded by the 2nd Marquis of Westminster for Chester City Council, the wall is constructed from squared snecked sandstone rubble and granite.
The structure features a plinth and replaced railings between Love Street and the north-west gateway, which has square granite piers that taper to an octagonal section beneath ornate moulded finials. Between the north-west gateway and the west gateway, opposite St John Baptist churchyard, there are two chamfered granite piers that also diminish to an octagonal section towards blunt-pointed caps. The rock-faced squared snecked sandstone wall reaches up to 2 meters high and steps down along the slope of the path towards the River Dee.
A south-west gateway was added to provide access from the Groves and the Suspension Bridge. The south wall, which is partly a retaining wall, stands approximately 1.6 meters high. The south gateway leading to Grosvenor Park Terrace features two chamfered granite piers that taper to blunt-pointed octagonal caps, along with a plinth and replaced railing between the gateway and Billy Hobby's Well.
Local climate
Park Wall and Gate Piers from Love Street North to Hobbys Well South 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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