Summer House in Grounds of Bishopstrow House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1976. Pavilion.
Summer House in Grounds of Bishopstrow House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-rubble-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1976
- Type
- Pavilion
- Address
- Summer House in Grounds of Bishopstrow House, Warminster Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 896 441
- Coordinates
- 51.19608, -2.14961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House in the grounds of Bishopstrow House is an early 19th-century pavilion. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with rubble stone at the rear and features a pointed Welsh slate roof. The building is octagonal in shape and has a three-sided loggia at the front, standing at a single storey.
The front facade includes three hollow-chamfered square openings, which are partly closed by wooden trellis, and central half-glazed double doors that close off the remainder of the octagon. On either side of the doors are 18-pane sash windows with margin lights, and the facade is enhanced by pilasters with a key motif. The five sides at the rear have hollow-chamfered square panels and no windows. Below the plain cornice of the roof is an astragal.
Inside, the Summer House features a stone floor, three round-arched niches on the rear walls, and a moulded plaster ceiling cornice. It is set in a picturesque location within the gardens of the Regency-style Bishopstrow House, which was associated with the Temple family.
Local climate
Summer House in Grounds of Bishopstrow House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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