Temple on Island in Lower Drakeloe Pond is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Temple.
Temple on Island in Lower Drakeloe Pond
- WRENN ID
- eternal-hammer-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Temple
- Address
- Temple on Island in Lower Drakeloe Pond, Woburn
- OS grid reference
- SP 951 336
- Coordinates
- 51.99318, -0.61597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The temple on the island in Lower Drakeloe Pond is an ornamental structure built in the 'Chinese Gothick' style, dating from around 1749 or earlier. It is made of painted timber, which was originally partly gilded. This single-storey open octagonal building features a three-stage swept-out pagoda-style roof supported by eight slender columns adorned with bands of painted decoration. The structure includes ogee arches, each with a shallow step at the midpoint of the haunch. The spandrels are decorated with moulded painted flowers, and the roof still shows traces of its original painted decoration.
Local climate
Temple on Island in Lower Drakeloe Pond sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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