Summerhouse (Main Building) is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Lodge.
Summerhouse (Main Building)
- WRENN ID
- ruined-moulding-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2002
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Summerhouse (Main Building), Wraxall and Failand
- OS grid reference
- ST 506 720
- Coordinates
- 51.44484, -2.71126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a summerhouse, specifically the main building of an estate lodge, dating from the late 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with freestone dressings and features a hipped clay tile roof adorned with bands of scalloped tiles. The building has a stone axial stack with red brick shafts.
The plan is T-shaped, and it is a single-storey structure. The south front is symmetrical with three bays, where the center is a projecting wing that features a stone three-light bay window. The windows have ovolo moulded two-light stone mullions, and on the right side of the wing, there is a moulded stone door frame that holds a panelled and glazed door. There are also three-light stone mullion windows on either side of the wing.
The interior has not been inspected. This summerhouse is a notable example of a late Victorian lodge and is part of a series of estate buildings located at Tyntesfield Park.
Local climate
Summerhouse (Main Building) receives an average of 850 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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