Rotunda is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Garden pavilion.
Rotunda
- WRENN ID
- old-pavement-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Garden pavilion
- Address
- Rotunda, Wotton Underwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 680 170
- Coordinates
- 51.84762, -1.01361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rotunda is a garden pavilion designed in the form of a circular temple, built in the 1750s. It is constructed of wood, with stone bases for the columns, and features a roof that is now made of fibreglass. The pavilion has ten columns, each adorned with moulded Ionic capitals and an entablature, topped by a shallow domed roof. At the time of its listing in 1967, the building was in a state of disrepair but has since been restored and largely rebuilt around 1990. The Rotunda was illustrated in Country Life on July 8, 1949.
It is set within a historic designed landscape that surrounds an early 18th-century country house. This landscape, likely developed by George London and Henry Wise, evolved into an extensive mid-18th-century park for George Grenville, with significant contributions to the design attributed to William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham.
Local climate
Rotunda 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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