Summer House at Holmer Park is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1998. Summerhouse.
Summer House at Holmer Park
- WRENN ID
- lone-lancet-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1998
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Address
- Summer House at Holmer Park, Cleeve Orchard, Holmer & Shelwick
- OS grid reference
- SO 508 423
- Coordinates
- 52.077, -2.71881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House at Holmer Park is a Grade II listed structure that was originally an aviary, built in 1862 for Alfred Watkins using timbers from Hereford Town Hall, which was demolished that same year. The timbers date from around 1580. The building features a timber-framed design with some brick nogging and has a pyramidal roof covered with clay plain tiles, topped by a timber lantern at the apex. It is square in shape with two adjacent open sides. The summer house has large moulded timber corner posts with carved capitals, moulded arched spandrels decorated with acanthus motifs and shields, and pendants. Two sides, the north and east, have timber-framed screens with brick nogging, while the other sides remain open. The structure reflects its historical significance through the use of reclaimed materials from a notable local building.
Local climate
Summer House at Holmer Park receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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