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Historical Buildings On The Eaton Estate 🌞🌾🦁 -->
🙌🏻 The Parrot House 🙌🏻
situated in Eaton Park in the garden east of the hall at the north end of Broad Walk. It was designed in the early 1800’s, by Alfred Waterhouse for Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke of Westminster. Built with yellow terracotta and designed in the form of a circular colonnaded Ionic temple with shallow domed roof. With a flight of 7 steps leading up to the colnnade, a frieze of swags above the colonnade and concentric balustrades above the colonnade and the inner drum. Flight of 11 steps to south entrance, a 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.
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