Garden Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. A Not explicitly stated Garden temple.

Garden Temple

WRENN ID
under-banister-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
Garden temple
Period
Not explicitly stated
Address
Garden Temple, Godmersham
OS grid reference
TR 060 506
Coordinates
51.21826, 0.94963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Garden Temple is a structure from the 18th century, erected in 1935. It features a marble plinth, wood and plaster columns, and is constructed from brick and stucco, topped with a slate roof. The temple has an Ionic portico supported by four columns, which holds a frieze adorned with rosettes and a central swag, along with a pediment above. Inside, there is a polygonal room with two niches, and an inner frieze on two pilasters that includes a central carved medallion depicting a mourning female figure and an urn. The portico was originally the south entrance to the mansion house, which was relocated to this site in 1935.

Local climate

Garden Temple sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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