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
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
Garden structure
Period
Victorian
Address
Parrot House at North End of Broad Walk, East Garden to Hall, Eaton and Eccleston
OS grid reference
SJ 415 608
Coordinates
53.14178, -2.8746
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parrot House, located at the north end of Broad Walk in Eaton Park, was built between 1881 and 1883 by architect Alfred Waterhouse for the 1st Duke of Westminster. This former parrot house is constructed from yellow terracotta and is designed to resemble a circular colonnaded Ionic temple topped with a shallow domed roof. It features a frieze of swags above the colonnade and concentric balustrades above both the colonnade and the inner drum. There is a flight of 11 steps leading to the south entrance, with a projecting heating chamber to the north. Inside, the central chamber includes four semi-circular niches, with one niche on each side of the lobby leading to the heating chamber. A frieze of griffins is located below the clerestory, and caryatids between the clerestory windows support the dome. The Parrot House was integrated into Detmar Blow's redesign of the east garden in 1911, serving as the north terminal of the main cross axis.

Local climate

Parrot House at North End of Broad Walk receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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