Garden Pavilion 20m South-East of Beaulieu Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Garden pavilion.

Garden Pavilion 20m South-East of Beaulieu Lodge

WRENN ID
brooding-hammer-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 2010
Type
Garden pavilion
Address
Garden Pavilion 20m South-East of Beaulieu Lodge, Kelston Road
OS grid reference
ST 716 660
Coordinates
51.39307, -2.40833
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A late-18th-century garden pavilion standing 20 metres south-east of Beaulieu Lodge in Bath. The building is a single storey structure with a square plan, constructed in coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins. It originally featured a timber-framed pyramid roof rising above an ashlar-coped parapet with cornicing, though the roof is now lost. The northern elevation contains a doorway set under a two-pointed arch, now partially blocked. A similar pointed arched window is present in the western elevation.

The pavilion stands within a late-18th-century terraced garden, which was further improved in the late-19th century and offers extensive views of the surrounding landscape. The Tithe Map for Weston (1846) names the site as 'Beaulieu and Pleasure Gardens'. The pavilion may be contemporary with the main house, Beaulieu Lodge, which probably dates from around 1772. According to George Monkwell's 1859 supplement to 'Literature and Literati of Bath', the house was built for John Zephaniah Holwell (1711–1798), an East India Company servant famous for his account of the Black Hole disaster in Fort William, Calcutta in 1756. However, more recent scholarship by W.F. Rae (2004) suggests the house may instead have been built by the playwright and satirist Richard Tickell (1751–1793). The garden pavilion shares stylistic detail with Gothic arch windows inserted in the lower ground floor of the main house's rear canted bay, suggesting a possible connection. In 1885, Beaulieu was purchased by Alexander Hill Gray, a local traveller and gardener, who further improved the gardens as recorded in 1899 and 1925. The pavilion's window commands views across the River Avon to Kelston Park, laid out by landscape architect Lancelot Brown between 1767 and 1768.

Local climate

Garden Pavilion 20m South-East of Beaulieu Lodge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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