Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Garden temple.
Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Garden temple
- Address
- Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place, Padstow
- OS grid reference
- SW 913 755
- Coordinates
- 50.54229, -4.94676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden Temple, located to the southwest of Prideaux Place, was built between 1738 and 1739 by Edmund Prideaux. Constructed from stuccoed stone rubble, brick, and ashlar stone, this small temple features a tetrastyle Ionic design with the end columns engaging the antae, rather than being in antis. It is raised on a stylobate and has a flight of steps at the front. The pediment is finely dentilled, and the temple has a shallow rectangular plan with unpierced side and rear walls. There are remains of two later 19th-century columns adorned with swags, which originally framed an alley in front of the temple but are now positioned behind it. This temple is one of several garden buildings created by Edmund Prideaux and is depicted in drawings of the east front and garden from the 1730s by Prideaux, as well as in a 1758 illustration by Borlase.
Local climate
Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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