The Temple is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Georgian Banqueting house.
The Temple
- WRENN ID
- plain-beam-crag
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Banqueting house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Temple, Euston
- OS grid reference
- TL 904 784
- Coordinates
- 52.37067, 0.7956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple is a banqueting house built in 1746, designed by William Kent for the 2nd Duke of Grafton in the Palladian style. It is constructed of white brick with stone dressings, a cornice, and a pediment, featuring unusual rustications in white and pale grey flint. The building has a domed, lead-covered roof at the center with a triangular pediment, which is said to have been reconstructed after a fire, resulting in the loss of some original interior decoration. The structure has a two-storey center with a pedimented small-paned sash window at both the front and back, flanked by two lower extensions that have semi-circular headed niches. On each side, a dog-leg stair with stone balustrades leads up to the principal room on the first floor. Below this room is another, supported by four free-standing Tuscan columns.
Local climate
The Temple sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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