Billy Hobbys Well is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. A Victorian Pumphouse pavilion.
Billy Hobbys Well
- WRENN ID
- proud-railing-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Pumphouse pavilion
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK 1932-1/6/133 (South side) 10/01/72 Billy Hobby's Well
GV II
Pumphouse pavilion for water garden in Grosvenor Park. 1865-67. By John Douglas at the expense of the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City Council. Sandstone ashlar, red and buff. Octagonal on square plinth; each cardinal face has a pointed-arched opening with a pair of polished red granite columns attached to each jamb, with C13-style capitals; voussoirs with carved roses; wrought-iron bars with spiked crooks; recessed circlet in each canted side, with armorial sheafs and portcullises; carved cove forming cornice beneath eaves of light-grey slate spire surmounted by a copper fish as weathervane, on a lead finial. (Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes: 1865-1867: PASSIM; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 47; 50; 81).
Listing NGR: SJ4127766202
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