The Gothic Temple is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. Pavilion, holiday cottage.
The Gothic Temple
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-gable-primrose
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pavilion, holiday cottage
- Address
- The Gothic Temple, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 679 374
- Coordinates
- 52.03127, -1.01151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gothic Temple is a pavilion, now functioning as a holiday cottage, built in 1741 by Gibbs. It is constructed from brown ironstone, and its roof is concealed by castellated parapets. The building has two storeys and a triangular plan, featuring a three-storey tower at one angle and stone domed turrets at two others. Each side of the structure has a shallow gable divided into three bays, supported by attached columns of a gothicised Doric order, with pointed arches between them. The two central columns are topped with pinnacles, flanking a central roundel with a quatre-foil design. The first-floor windows are traceried, featuring quatre-foils in the centre, while the ground floor openings have gothic panelled spandrels. Each arch contains a pointed arched window recess, with some being blank and others having a quatrefoil opening at the head.
Local climate
The Gothic Temple 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 79% 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 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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