Temple in Garden of Purbeck House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Temple.
Temple in Garden of Purbeck House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-portal-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Temple
- Address
- Temple in Garden of Purbeck House, High Street, Swanage, BH19 2LZ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 029 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60747, -1.95912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple in the garden of Purbeck House was built after 1878 by George Burt. It has a square plan and features a tiled roof with a concave profile, topped with terra-cotta dragons. The roof is supported by stone Tuscan columns that were salvaged from the toll-houses of John Rennie's Waterloo Bridge, which was constructed around 1817 and re-erected around 1878. The temple is raised on a stone terrace with a balustrated parapet and is accessed by stone steps. The floor is paved with encaustic tiles that were removed from the House of Commons around 1880. In front of the temple, there are three mutilated stone statues from the second Royal Exchange, which may represent Edward I and Henry V, likely from the 17th century. Purbeck House and its associated buildings are listed for their historical significance related to George Burt and for housing numerous relics from older London buildings.
Local climate
Temple in Garden of Purbeck House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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