Listed Building: PARROT HOUSE AT NORTH END OF BROAD WALK (1138401)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 34, 9, 84
Date assigned 02 November 1983
Date last amended

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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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 55280. [Mapped features: #4405 55280; #9710 55280]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 4159 6087 (12m by 16m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ46SW
Civil Parish EATON, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

Oct 30 2009 12:00PM