Greek Garden Temple is a Grade II* listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Garden temple.

Greek Garden Temple

WRENN ID
leaning-dormer-acorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bassetlaw
Constituency
Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1967
Type
Garden temple
Address
Greek Garden Temple, Clumber and Hardwick
OS grid reference
SK 629 745
Coordinates
53.2641, -1.05728
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Greek Garden Temple is a garden structure built around 1765 by Stephen Wright for the Duke of Newcastle. It features a Greek Doric hexastyle portico made of ashlar stone and has a felted roof. The front of the temple is adorned with fluted columns, antae, and a pediment. Inside, there is a coved panelled plaster ceiling.

Local climate

Greek Garden Temple 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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