Tuscan Pavilions is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Garden pavilion.
Tuscan Pavilions
- WRENN ID
- broken-railing-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Garden pavilion
- Address
- Tuscan Pavilions, Wotton Underwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 681 160
- Coordinates
- 51.83902, -1.01287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tuscan Pavilions are a pair of garden structures built in the 1750s, which were repaired and largely reconstructed in the 1980s. Each pavilion resembles a small temple, featuring a wooden portico supported by four Tuscan columns at each end, with short lath and plaster side walls and a single cross wall, topped with slate roofs. The pavilions overlook a lake and are positioned at a slight angle to the wide avenue that runs along the main axis of Wotton House. They were illustrated in Country Life on July 8, 1949.
The pavilions are part of a historic designed landscape surrounding an early 18th-century country house, which likely has a layout by George London and Henry Wise. This area developed into an extensive mid-18th-century park for George Grenville, designed by Lancelot Brown, with significant contributions from William Pitt, who later became the first Earl of Chatham.
Local climate
Tuscan Pavilions sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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