Summer House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1986. Summer house.
Summer House
- WRENN ID
- second-flint-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1986
- Type
- Summer house
- Address
- Summer House, High Street, Shipton-Under-Wychwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 278 175
- Coordinates
- 51.85605, -1.59733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House is a garden pavilion located on the east side of High Street in Shipton-under-Wychwood, built around 1903-1906 by architects Perkins and Bulmer. It is constructed from rubble with a Cotswold stone roof and features a lead gutter with embossed decoration. The building has a cross-plan and is gabled in the Cotswold style, with mullion windows. The coped verges are adorned with kneelers and finials. The south gable includes a loggia with chamfered antae and block caps, topped by a stepped panel, while the side entrances are Tudor-arched. Both the north and south fronts have a Tudor-arched doorway flanked by 2-light hollow-chamfer mullion windows. Inside, the space resembles a billiard room, featuring a large fireplace recess with benching and sidelights, and windows that display heraldic 20th-century roundels. The woodwork and metalwork throughout are crafted in the Art Nouveau style. The Summer House was recently used as a Roman Catholic Chapel and is set at the head of the formal water garden of Shipton Court.
Local climate
Summer House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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