Queen Anne's Summerhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Queen Anne's Summerhouse
- WRENN ID
- old-sill-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Queen Anne's Summerhouse, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 437
- Coordinates
- 52.08062, -0.33269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen Anne's Summerhouse is an isolated building, likely a hunting lodge, with plaques displaying the Shuttleworth emblem and the years 1876 or 1878, although the plaques are somewhat eroded. The structure is made of gauged red brick with artificial stone dressings and has a small square plan with circular corner turrets. The west elevation features remnants of a wooden door surround that once included rusticated plasters supporting a segmental pediment, which housed a semi-circular fanlight above a door with moulded octagonal panels. Each of the other three elevations has a round-headed window with an artificial stone keystone and imposts. All elevations are topped with a balustraded parapet made of artificial stone, and the turrets have plain coping in the same material. Inside, the southwest turret shows evidence of a former staircase leading to the flat roof, while the southeast turret contains a plain fireplace.
Local climate
Queen Anne's Summerhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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