Summerhouse About 120 Metres South West of Hinchingbrooke House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1993. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse About 120 Metres South West of Hinchingbrooke House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-gutter-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1993
- Type
- Summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- TL 226 714
- Coordinates
- 52.3272, -0.20206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summerhouse, located about 120 metres south west of Hinchingbrooke House, dates from the mid 19th century. It is constructed of gault brick with red brick dressings and features a fishscale tile roof adorned with crested ridge tiles and ornate pierced bargeboards at the gable ends, topped with spike finials. The building has a small single-cell rectangular plan, with an entrance and porch on the northwest end, a stack on the southeast end, and a bay window on the southwest side.
The exterior is a single storey. The northwest gable end includes a central doorway with a plank door that has cover moulds, and an open wooden porch featuring ornate pierced bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial at the gable. This is flanked by small 1-light casements that were formerly fitted with diamond panes. The southwest side has a canted bay window at the centre, which has a coved eaves cornice and a hipped roof. Above the bay window is a small gable with pierced bargeboards and a finial, which contains a coronet and the initials MS, believed to refer to Mary Montague, the daughter of the Earl of Sandwich. The southeast gable end features a large brick stack with set offs, while the rear northeast wall is blind.
Inside, there is a boarded ceiling supported by pierced arch braces. It is suggested that this summerhouse may have been built in memory of Mary Montague, who lived from 1812 to 1839.
Local climate
Summerhouse About 120 Metres South West of Hinchingbrooke House 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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 0.4°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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