Garden Temple (Known As Fannys Bower) in Grounds of Saltram House is a Grade II* listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1975. A Georgian Garden temple.

Garden Temple (Known As Fannys Bower) in Grounds of Saltram House

WRENN ID
spare-beam-laurel
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Plymouth
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1975
Type
Garden temple
Period
Georgian
Address
Garden Temple (Known As Fannys Bower) in Grounds of Saltram House, Merafield Road, City of Plymouth
OS grid reference
SX 519 557
Coordinates
50.38305, -4.08394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Garden Temple, also known as Fanny's Bower, is a belvedere resembling a temple, built in the late 18th century for Parker, located in the grounds of Saltram House in Plympton. The structure features dressed granite columns, with the rest made of stucco on rubble, and has a dry slate roof. It has a shallow, small rectangular plan with an open colonnade at the front. The front showcases a distyle-in-antae arrangement of Tuscan columns, with a wider central bay. Above this is a triangular pediment that includes a moulded wooden cornice over a moulded entablature. Inside, there is a moulded plaster ceiling cornice enriched with egg-and-dart detailing.

Local climate

Garden Temple (Known As Fannys Bower) in Grounds of Saltram House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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