Summer house overlooking the site of a former tennis court in Rivington Gardens at SD 6394 1399 is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 2013. Summer house. 1 related planning application.

Summer house overlooking the site of a former tennis court in Rivington Gardens at SD 6394 1399

WRENN ID
ragged-terrace-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Constituency
Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 2013
Type
Summer house
OS grid reference
SD 639 139
Coordinates
53.62127, -2.54664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The summer house, designed by Thomas Mawson for Lord Leverhulme, was built in 1906 and is located overlooking the site of a former tennis court in Rivington Gardens. Constructed from gritstone, it has a rectangular plan and is a single-storey structure with a flat roof.

The summer house features a broad entrance at the center, which is divided into three sections by two pairs of thin, stacked gritstone columns. Additional columns are positioned at both ends of the entrance. On either side of the entrance, there are slightly protruding bays, each containing a centrally-placed rectangular window opening with rock-faced gritstone surrounds.

Staircases with flanking walls ascend on either side of the summer house, leading to a viewing deck that is surrounded by a parapet on the flat roof. The parapet is solid at both ends of the structure, while the area above the broad central entrance is balustraded. Access to the interior of the summer house and the viewing deck is restricted by iron railings.

Local climate

Summer house overlooking the site of a former tennis court in Rivington Gardens at SD 6394 1399 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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