Summerhouse at Wardown Park is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Garden house. 1 related planning application.

Summerhouse at Wardown Park

WRENN ID
spare-postern-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Luton
Constituency
Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1981
Type
Garden house
OS grid reference
TL 090 229
Coordinates
51.89449, -0.41734
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The summerhouse at Wardown Park, built around 1876, is a small octagonal garden house that was constructed at the same time as the main house. It features a thatched roof and tile hanging on the walls. The west, south, and east sides have casement windows and French doorways, all with heavy moulded frames and stained glass top lights. The area below the windows and on the north elevation displays tile hanging in both plain and fishscale patterns. Inside, the walls are panelled, and there is a domed ceiling.

Local climate

Summerhouse at Wardown Park 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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