Ionic Temple is a Grade I listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1955. A 18th century Temple. 1 related planning application.
Ionic Temple
- WRENN ID
- standing-rafter-kestrel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1955
- Type
- Temple
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Ionic Temple, Duncombe Park Estate, Helmsley, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 605 831
- Coordinates
- 54.24037, -1.07173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ionic Temple, dating from around 1730 and attributed to Vanbrugh, is located in the grounds of Duncombe Park Estate in Helmsley. This Grade I listed structure is built from sandstone ashlar and features a lead roof. The temple has an open rotunda and is set on a stepped podium, supported by nine Ionic columns. These columns hold up a plain architrave and frieze, topped with a dentilled cornice and a domed roof. The temple is noted in Hussey's "Duncombe Park I and II" published in Country Life in December 1957, as well as in Pevsner's "Yorkshire: the North Riding" from 1966.
Local climate
Ionic Temple receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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