The Doric Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Garden seat.

The Doric Temple

WRENN ID
open-shingle-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Garden seat
Address
The Doric Temple, Derry Hill & Studley
OS grid reference
ST 979 702
Coordinates
51.43097, -2.03127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Doric Temple is a garden seat built around 1800. It features a Greek Doric temple front with four columns, an entablature, and a pediment, all in a prostyle arrangement. The interior is lined with ashlar, while the rear wall is made of brick. This structure has become an important part of the Bowood landscape, having been relocated to the lakeside in 1864 from the pleasure grounds near the house.

Local climate

The Doric Temple receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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