The Cavendish Bentwick Mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1990. Mausoleum. 4 related planning applications.
The Cavendish Bentwick Mausoleum
- WRENN ID
- scattered-frieze-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1990
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Address
- The Cavendish Bentwick Mausoleum, Blanche Lane, South Mimms and Ridge, EN6 3PA
- OS grid reference
- TL 222 010
- Coordinates
- 51.69533, -0.23197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cavendish-Bentwick Mausoleum is a mausoleum built around 1900 for the Cavendish-Bentwick family, who were the Dukes of Portland. Designed by R Weir Schultz, it is constructed from ashlar and takes the form of a Greek Doric temple. The mausoleum features a two-step podium and a distyle in antis colonnade that supports a full entablature with a corniced pediment. This pediment includes a block finial and animal-headed rainwater spouts. The entrance is set back and has a panelled double door within an architrave. At the rear, there is an internally shuttered opening with an architrave and a pediment similar to the front.
Local climate
The Cavendish Bentwick Mausoleum 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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