The Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Garden building.

The Temple

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1970
Type
Garden building
Address
The Temple, Kensington Gardens W2, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 266 801
Coordinates
51.50633, -0.17602
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Temple is a garden building from the late 18th century, constructed of Bath Stone and featuring a low-pitched polygonal slate roof. It is a single storey structure with three bays, each bay having rusticated arched recesses and open to the east face. Each bay is pedimented, with the central bay being higher and including an attic storey, a console cornice, and a canted outward design. The left and right returns have apses topped with leaded semidomes.

Local climate

The Temple 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 93% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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