Garden Temple or Folly Circa 400 Yards North East of Belford Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Garden temple, folly.
Garden Temple or Folly Circa 400 Yards North East of Belford Hall
- WRENN ID
- unlit-column-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Garden temple, folly
- OS grid reference
- NU 114 344
- Coordinates
- 55.60337, -1.82034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Gothick garden temple or folly, built around 1756, designed by James Paine for Abraham Dixon. It is located approximately 400 yards northeast of Belford Hall. The structure is made of dressed stone and features a broad chamfered plinth, with the interior lined in brick. It has an octagonal plan and includes an ogee-headed door and three ogee-headed windows on alternating sides, along with blind cross-shaped arrow slits above. The alternating blank walls also have imitation arrow slits. Inside, there is a fireplace and three rounded niches. The temple was roofless at the time of the survey. Belford Hall is situated in Belford Parish.
Local climate
Garden Temple or Folly Circa 400 Yards North East of Belford Hall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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