Temple on Island in Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1969. Temple.
Temple on Island in Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden
- WRENN ID
- over-keystone-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1969
- Type
- Temple
- Address
- Temple on Island in Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden, Portsmouth Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 129 630
- Coordinates
- 51.35493, -0.37977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple on the island in the lake at Claremont Landscape Garden is a mid-18th century structure. It features flint at the base and yellow brick above, topped with hipped slate roofs. The central part of the building is a two-storey square pavilion, flanked by single-storey bays on the sides and rear. The ground floor is rusticated in the center, with an ashlar string course separating the flint and brick, which ends in impost blocks above the central arch. The front entrance is adorned with a pedimented stone moulding. The building has glazing bar sash windows on the returns and at the rear.
Local climate
Temple on Island in Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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