Summerhouse 30 Metres East of the Caves is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1984. Summerhouse. 1 related planning application.

Summerhouse 30 Metres East of the Caves

WRENN ID
ragged-pinnacle-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1984
Type
Summerhouse
Address
Summerhouse 30 Metres East of the Caves, BS29 6NA
OS grid reference
ST 382 587
Coordinates
51.3247, -2.88707
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a summerhouse located 30 metres east of The Caves, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from unworked stone, brick, and pebbles and consists of a single room. Each side of the summerhouse features a false pedimented gable. The elevation facing the house has three pointed arches covered in small flat pebbles, while each side has a single arch entrance. The rear includes three arched head niche seats. The roof is a single pitch that slopes from front to back, designed to shed water between the rear wall and a lower inner skin. Inside, there is only a low stone seat. At the time of the survey, the structure was noted to be in poor condition. This summerhouse is part of a larger collection of picturesque estate features created by the antiquarian Bishop Law of Bath and Wells on his Banwell estate.

Local climate

Summerhouse 30 Metres East of the Caves receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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