Summerhouse at Cuckfield Park is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. A Georgian Summerhouse.

Summerhouse at Cuckfield Park

WRENN ID
dreaming-groin-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Sussex
Constituency
Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1987
Type
Summerhouse
Period
Georgian
OS grid reference
TQ 298 244
Coordinates
51.00496, -0.15132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The summerhouse at Cuckfield Park is an 18th-century structure made of red brick in English bond. It features a moulded wooden cornice and an ogee-shaped roof made of Horsham stone slabs, topped with a wooden finial shaped like a baluster. The building is square in plan and consists of one storey. It has two 'Gothick' wooden casement windows, each with four lights and diamond leaded panes. Access to the summerhouse is via a flight of stone steps.

Local climate

Summerhouse at Cuckfield Park receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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