Tea House and Bridge at Tl 522 385, North West of Audley End House is a Grade I listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. A Georgian Bridge, summerhouse.
Tea House and Bridge at Tl 522 385, North West of Audley End House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-roof-alder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Bridge, summerhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Tea House and Bridge at Tl 522 385, North West of Audley End House, Audley Park, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 522 385
- Coordinates
- 52.02434, 0.21826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tea house and bridge, located north-west of Audley End House, were built in 1783 and designed by Robert Adam. This small Palladian structure features ashlar and stucco with a lead roof. The bridge has a single segmental arch and is adorned with a tetrastyle Ionic temple facade over the center section. It includes a dentilled entablature and a flat roof with four roundels in the frieze, along with a central raised panel above the cornice. Paterae are present in the bridge spandrels, and wrought-iron handrails extend across the front, supported by fluted circular terminal piers. Behind the footway across the bridge, there is an inner matching open colonnade that leads to the tea room, which has a plain interior.
Local climate
Tea House and Bridge at Tl 522 385, North West of Audley End House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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