The Summer House and Terrace Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. Garden pavilion.
The Summer House and Terrace Wall
- WRENN ID
- cold-granite-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Garden pavilion
- Address
- The Summer House and Terrace Wall, Warnford Park, Winchester
- OS grid reference
- SU 622 224
- Coordinates
- 50.99795, -1.11386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House and terrace wall is a Gothic garden pavilion built on a terrace, now serving as a dwelling, dating from the early 19th century. The walls are made of coarse flint with rustic malmstone dressings, featuring quoins, a parapet with coping and a band that includes indented quatrefoils, keystones, and impost blocks above pointed arches, as well as diamonds with quatrefoils. The slate roof covers a tall single-storey south front that conceals an upper floor and a basement, with a 1.1 doorway and 1.1 windows. The pointed heads are present on the sashes and the central French door.
On the north side, there is a basement at the rear of the embanked terrace, and a central gabled projection that contains the main entrance. This entrance opens onto an upper walkway flanked by balustrades and accessed by two flights of stairs. The walkway culminates in a slightly projecting facade with a wide arch leading to a vaulted passage, which ends in a half-glazed door. Each end elevation features an attached chimney stack with small Gothic windows on either side, both at the top and bottom. The terrace wall extends significantly on both sides of the building, consisting of a low wall of flintwork with taller piers at intervals, and at the west end, there is a flight of steps leading down to the approach road.
Local climate
The Summer House and Terrace Wall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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