RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED)

RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED), CASTLE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376110
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED), CASTLE DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376110
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED), CASTLE DRIVE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL TO BANK OF RIVER DEE OPPOSITE COUNTY HALL (NOT INCLUDED), CASTLE DRIVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chester Castle
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40614 65752

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE CASTLE DRIVE 595-1/6/84 (South side) Retaining wall to bank of River Dee opposite County Hall (not included)

GV II

Wall with parapet. c1830. Coursed sandstone. The south face towards the tidal River Dee is approx 15 courses capped by a roll-mould. The ground north of the wall is level with the mould. The parapet is of stone slabs approx one metre wide x one metre high jointed in iron and with some iron cramps. The wall was probably built by the Council of the County Palatine of Chester when they bought the land between the County gaol and the river c1830. The east portion was modified c1913 in connection with building the City Council's hydro-electric station. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 133-4; Wood: Map of Chester: Chester: 1833-; Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 Plans, First Edition: Wood: Chester City: 1875-).

Listing NGR: SJ4061465752

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Sources

Books and journals
Wood, J, Plan of the City of Chester, (1833)
Harris, B, 'Bartholomew City Guides' in Chester, (1979), 133-4

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.