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
Country: England
Date first listed: 30 August 1988
Type: Garden temple
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SPELSBURY DITCHLEY PARK SP32SE 8/172 The Little Temple approx. 130m SW of Ditchley House

GV II

Garden temple. Mid/late C18 for the Earls of Litchfield, re-sited c.1935 by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe for Ronald and Nancy Tree. Limestone. Rectangular summerhouse, with a canted Venetian window in the rear wall, has an C18 stone doorway, with a moulded architrave and entablature with pulvinated frieze, flanked by oval plaster reliefs. Stone tetrastyle Tuscan portico has a triangular pediment and ball finials. Interior: a marble tablet records the temple restoration in memory of R.L. Tree (1897-1976). (Ditchley Park is included in the English Heritage Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*)

Listing NGR: SP3889121111

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