The Little Temple Approximately 130 Metres South West Of Ditchley House

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*.