The Little Temple Approximately 130 Metres South West of Ditchley House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. Garden temple.
The Little Temple Approximately 130 Metres South West of Ditchley House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-tin-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1988
- Type
- Garden temple
- OS grid reference
- SP 388 211
- Coordinates
- 51.88721, -1.43632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Temple, located approximately 130 metres southwest of Ditchley House, is a garden temple built in the mid to late 18th century for the Earls of Litchfield. It was re-sited around 1935 by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe for Ronald and Nancy Tree. The temple is constructed of limestone and features a rectangular summerhouse with a canted Venetian window in the rear wall. It has an 18th-century stone doorway with a moulded architrave and entablature that includes a pulvinated frieze, flanked by oval plaster reliefs. The stone tetrastyle Tuscan portico is topped with a triangular pediment and ball finials. Inside, a marble tablet commemorates the restoration of the temple in memory of R.L. Tree, who lived from 1897 to 1976. Ditchley Park, where the temple is located, is also listed in the English Heritage Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*.
Local climate
The Little Temple Approximately 130 Metres South West of Ditchley House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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