Gothic Summer House Approximately 200 Metres South of Bramham Park is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Summer house.

Gothic Summer House Approximately 200 Metres South of Bramham Park

WRENN ID
ragged-portal-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1966
Type
Summer house
OS grid reference
SE 408 414
Coordinates
53.86807, -1.37976
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gothic Summer House, located approximately 200 metres south of Bramham Park, dates from the early 19th century, with a former list suggesting it was built in 1845. Constructed from magnesian limestone ashlar, the building has a tripartite plan featuring a square central section with small square wings.

In the Gothic style, the structure is symmetrical, with a higher single-storey centre that is buttressed. It features a two-centred arched doorway with engaged shafts topped by foliated capitals, a moulded head that contains a trefoil fanlight, and tall two-centred arched windows on each side adorned with wooden tracery, creating two lights and a multifoil in the head. A string course runs along the building, and there is a blank shield in the centre of the frieze above, topped by a parapet with four crocketed pinnacles. The flanking wings, which are slightly set back, each have a two-centred arched window with a hoodmould and crocketed pinnacles at the corners, although the left wing is missing its pinnacles. The rear of the building is designed in a similar style. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the summer house is noted on a survey by Detmar Blow around 1907, where it was referred to as a "Museum."

Local climate

Gothic Summer House Approximately 200 Metres South of Bramham Park receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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