The Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. Garden building.
The Temple
- WRENN ID
- lone-finial-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- Garden building
- Address
- The Temple, Newport Road, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield
- OS grid reference
- SZ 440 872
- Coordinates
- 50.68329, -1.37819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple is an ornamental garden building, dating from around 1790, though it may be built on the foundations of an earlier structure from the Swainston estate. It is designed in the style of a Doric temple, featuring a very deep plinth made of stone rubble and three steps leading up to the entrance. The front is adorned with six ashlar Greek Doric columns that support an entablature with a pediment and a triglyph frieze. The entrance is plain and set within the plinth. The side walls are constructed of coursed stone rubble. At the time of the survey, part of a side wall and the rear wall were missing. The cellar contains a blocked round-headed arch, likely remnants of the previous estate building.
Local climate
The Temple receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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