Temple Approximately 270 Metres North West of Whiteford is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1982. Folly, holiday home. 1 related planning application.

Temple Approximately 270 Metres North West of Whiteford

WRENN ID
small-chancel-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1982
Type
Folly, holiday home
OS grid reference
SX 353 737
Coordinates
50.54073, -4.3247
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a folly in the form of a temple, located approximately 270 meters northwest of Whiteford. It was built in 1799 and has since been used as a cattle byre and is now a holiday home. The structure was restored by the Landmark Trust around 1987. The front is made of granite ashlar with recessed Coade stone plaques, while the sides and rear are constructed from roughly coursed slate-stone with rough granite quoins. The roof is graded slate, which has recently replaced a corrugated iron roof, and it may have originally been made of lead.

Designed as a classical temple, the building features a projecting pedimented section at the front, flanked by lean-to wings. It is a single-storey structure with a moulded eaves cornice that wraps around the pediment and extends to the lean-tos and rear. The front has a triple round-headed arcade with an impost band, which contains late 20th-century French windows styled in the late 18th century. Each lean-to has a mutilated Coade stone plaque depicting a reclining female figure; one figure holds a sheaf of corn, while the other rests on a stack of bales with a sailing ship in the background. The plaque is inscribed "COADE/ LAMBETH/1799," and the left plaque also has the inscription "AMERICA INDIA." Each lean-to and the rear of the right lean-to feature small six-paned sash windows with granite lintels, and there is a recessed boarded door at the rear of the left lean-to.

Inside, there are triple round-headed recesses on the back wall, with the center recess containing a plain white marble fireplace that was likely added during the late 20th-century restoration. The side walls have blind elliptical arches and late 20th-century six-panel doors leading to the lean-tos. The interior also features a restored moulded plaster cornice and a plain dado.

Local climate

Temple Approximately 270 Metres North West of Whiteford sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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