The Temple at Sk 031399 is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. A C19 Folly.
The Temple at Sk 031399
- WRENN ID
- nether-step-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1953
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- The Temple at Sk 031399, Hollington Road, Checkley
- OS grid reference
- SK 031 399
- Coordinates
- 52.95667, -1.95382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple is a folly built in the 1850s using materials from the recently demolished Heath House, which was originally constructed by Thomas Trubshaw in the 1820s. It is made of sandstone ashlar and features a circular plan set on a stepped plinth. The structure is supported by eight Ionic columns, which hold up a plain frieze, cornice, and a coursed stone dome. The Temple offers a distant and now obscured view from Heath House.
Local climate
The Temple at Sk 031399 receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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