Summer House in Bridge Royd Wood approximately 200 metres west of Cascade Bridge in Bretton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Summer house.
Summer House in Bridge Royd Wood approximately 200 metres west of Cascade Bridge in Bretton Park
- WRENN ID
- ragged-tracery-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1988
- Type
- Summer house
- OS grid reference
- SE 279 125
- Coordinates
- 53.6085, -1.57897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summer house, located in Bridge Royd Wood approximately 200 metres west of Cascade Bridge in Bretton Park, was likely built in the early 19th century for Colonel Thomas Richard and Diana Beaumont. It is constructed from tooled ashlar with stuccoed brick infill at the rear and has a semi-circular shape. The structure is supported by four Roman Doric columns and two square engaged piers, which hold up the entablature and blocking course. At the rear, there are two pairs of columns. The summer house is raised on a two-step podium and features a stone-flag floor laid radially, topped with a flat roof.
Local climate
Summer House in Bridge Royd Wood approximately 200 metres west of Cascade Bridge in Bretton Park receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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