Temple to East of Rushmore House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. Temple.

Temple to East of Rushmore House

WRENN ID
scarred-outpost-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 January 1966
Type
Temple
Address
Temple to East of Rushmore House, Berwick St. John
OS grid reference
ST 954 185
Coordinates
50.96603, -2.06584
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Temple to the east of Rushmore House is a Grade II listed structure built in 1890 for General Pitt-Rivers. It is designed in the style of a Temple of Vesta and constructed from limestone ashlar with a copper domed roof. The building features a rotunda supported by fifteen composite columns that rise to an entablature adorned with an egg and dart frieze and a modillioned cornice. The temple stands on a nine-step stylobate. It is situated within a landscaped garden, and its location is significant as it relates to the nearby walled garden to the west, offering views through the gates to the open countryside beyond.

Local climate

Temple to East of Rushmore 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 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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