Gothic Tea House in the American Garden at Powderham Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 2000. Tea house.
Gothic Tea House in the American Garden at Powderham Castle
- WRENN ID
- riven-ashlar-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2000
- Type
- Tea house
- OS grid reference
- SX 958 842
- Coordinates
- 50.64834, -3.47459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gothic Tea House in the American Garden at Powderham Castle is a tea house located in a landscaped park, dating from around 1800. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond with burnt headers and features stone dressings. The roof is concealed behind a parapet.
The structure is a single-storey building with a long, single-depth range that has a canted center and French casements on the front and sides, showcasing its Gothic Revival style. The exterior has a symmetrical front with two bays on either side of a central three-bay section, which is canted. It features large pointed arch French casements with Gothic glazing bars, moulded stone string-courses, and an embattled parapet above with plain stone coping. The end elevations each have one bay with similar windows.
Inside, the tea house has plastered walls and pointed arch doorways and windows that include arris mouldings.
Local climate
Gothic Tea House in the American Garden at Powderham Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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