The Turkey Building is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Pavilion.
The Turkey Building
- WRENN ID
- old-vestry-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Pavilion
- Address
- The Turkey Building, Wotton Underwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 683 167
- Coordinates
- 51.84534, -1.00911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Turkey Building is a garden pavilion dating from the 1750s, although it has been significantly rebuilt, most recently around 2000. This wooden structure is designed in an oriental style and features a semi-octagonal shape with three open sides and a lath and plaster rear wall. Each corner is adorned with clusters of slender shafts that have moulded capitals, set on plinths with moulded cornices. The entablature has been altered and includes wrought iron scroll brackets and a wooden frieze that is pierced with geometric patterns. Inside, there is a stone flag floor, and the pavilion is topped with a tented copper roof that has a crescent moon finial. The building is illustrated in Country Life on July 8, 1949.
The pavilion is situated within a historic designed landscape surrounding an early 18th-century country house. This landscape features a contemporary layout, likely developed by George London and Henry Wise, and was expanded into an extensive mid-18th-century park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown. William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, is noted for his significant contributions to the design.
Local climate
The Turkey Building 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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