Fishing Temple in Grounds of Holywell Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1968. Garden temple.
Fishing Temple in Grounds of Holywell Hall
- WRENN ID
- silver-turret-candle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1968
- Type
- Garden temple
- Address
- Fishing Temple in Grounds of Holywell Hall, Careby Aunby and Holywell
- OS grid reference
- SK 999 159
- Coordinates
- 52.73182, -0.5217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fishing Temple, located in the grounds of Holywell Hall, is a garden temple dating from around 1732. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a hipped slate roof with lead dressings. The temple is a single-storey structure with a five-bay front that includes a plinth, rusticated quoins, and a moulded cornice. The middle three bays are slightly advanced and form a pediment resembling a Doric portico, flanked by single glazing bar sash windows with stepped keyblocks. An oval plaque depicting a male head in profile is set into the central pediment. The recessed central open chamber has double six-panelled doors surrounded by rusticated surrounds with stepped keyblocks on the side walls. The side chambers retain limestone diamond flags, dado rails, and cornices. This temple is identical to one designed by James Gibbs at Hackwood and published in his Book of Architecture in 1728.
Local climate
Fishing Temple in Grounds of Holywell Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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