Five Seats on Riverside Pavement Opposite Temple Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Seating structure.
Five Seats on Riverside Pavement Opposite Temple Gardens
- WRENN ID
- winding-vault-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Seating structure
- Address
- Five Seats on Riverside Pavement Opposite Temple Gardens, Victoria Embankment Ec4, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 311 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51093, -0.11086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Five seats are located on the riverside pavement opposite Temple Gardens. These seats date from the late 19th century and feature cast iron supports adorned with figures of crouching camels. The seats are made with wooden slats.
Local climate
Five Seats on Riverside Pavement Opposite Temple Gardens 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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