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
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Pumphouse pavilion
- Address
- Billy Hobbys Well, Grosvenor Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 412 662
- Coordinates
- 53.18966, -2.88032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Billy Hobby's Well is a pumphouse pavilion located in the water garden of Grosvenor Park, built between 1865 and 1867. It was designed by John Douglas and constructed at the expense of the 2nd Marquis of Westminster for Chester City Council. The structure is made of sandstone ashlar in red and buff tones and is octagonal in shape, resting on a square plinth. Each of the four main sides features a pointed-arched opening flanked by a pair of polished red granite columns, which have 13th-century style capitals. The voussoirs above the arches are adorned with carved roses, and there are wrought-iron bars with spiked crooks. Each canted side has a recessed circlet displaying armorial sheafs and portcullises. A carved cove forms a cornice beneath the eaves of the light-grey slate spire, which is topped with a copper fish weathervane and a lead finial.
Local climate
Billy Hobbys Well 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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