The Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Garden temple. 1 related planning application.
The Temple
- WRENN ID
- worn-basalt-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Constituency
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Garden temple
- Address
- The Temple, the Esplanade, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 1EL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 333 033
- Coordinates
- 50.81434, -0.10827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple is a garden temple built around 1835, designed by architect William Kendall, who also laid out Madeira Drive and the Esplanade, and designed the Esplanade Cottages and Reading Room. The structure is made of stucco and has a roof that is obscured by a parapet and a 20th-century walkway.
The temple has a rectangular plan and is set into an embankment. The main elevation features a round-arched arcade with three bays and a return bay on one side. Each pier in the arcade is composite, consisting of a plain pier with a springing band for the arches, topped with a Tuscan pilaster that supports an entablature just above the arcade. The end walls are designed as rusticated piers, with a dentil cornice of the entablature running across them. The return bay to the right follows the same design.
The Temple is part of an important architectural group in Kemp Town, which includes Arundel Terrace, Chichester Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex Square, and related buildings. It forms part of a group with the former Old Reading Room, Esplanade Cottages, and the tunnel entrance.
Local climate
The Temple receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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