Parrot House At North End Of Broad Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. A Victorian Garden structure.
Parrot House At North End Of Broad Walk
- WRENN ID
- empty-newel-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Garden structure
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 4160 EATON C.P. EAST GARDEN TO HALL Eaton Park
9/84 Parrot House at north end of Broad Walk
GV II
Former Parrot House, 1881-3, by Alfred Waterhouse for 1st Duke of Westminster. Yellow terracotta. Designed in the form of a circular colonnaded Ionic temple with shallow domed roof. Frieze of swags above the colonnade; concentric balustrades above the colonnade and the inner drum. Flight of 11 steps to south entrance; projecting heating chamber to north. Interior: 4 semi-circular niches in central chamber and one on each side of lobby to heating chamber. Frieze of griffins below clerestory; caryatids between clerestory windows carry the dome. The Parrot House was incorporated in Detmar Blow's redesign of the east garden (1911) as the north terminal of the main cross axis.
Listing NGR: SJ4159360870
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