Summerhouse (Outbuilding) is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Summerhouse, outbuilding.

Summerhouse (Outbuilding)

WRENN ID
forgotten-corridor-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 2002
Type
Summerhouse, outbuilding
Address
Summerhouse (Outbuilding), Wraxall and Failand
OS grid reference
ST 506 719
Coordinates
51.44442, -2.71136
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The summer house, built around the late 19th century, is located at the north end of Bendle Combe in Tyntesfield Park. It is constructed from stone rubble with freestone dressings and features a scalloped tile hipped roof topped with an octagonal lantern, which also has a hipped roof. The building has an octagonal plan with a loggia on all sides and is a single storey. The roof extends down to low eaves, supported by rustic timber posts that create the loggia around the structure. On the south side, there are large three-light stone mullion windows and a moulded stone doorway. Inside, the walls are lined with match-boarding, and the exposed moulded timber roof structure and lantern are visible. The fireplace chimneypiece has been removed, and there is a large rustic table made from an enormous tree trunk. This summer house is a complete example of a Victorian summer house and is part of a fine series of garden and estate buildings at Tyntesfield Park.

Local climate

Summerhouse (Outbuilding) 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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