The Lake Pavilions is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1966. A {"circa 1730","circa 1760"} Pavilion.
The Lake Pavilions
- WRENN ID
- under-vestry-vermeil
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1966
- Type
- Pavilion
- Period
- {"circa 1730","circa 1760"}
- Address
- The Lake Pavilions, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 677 368
- Coordinates
- 52.02621, -1.01442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lake Pavilions are a pair of stone structures located flanking the southern vista at Stowe School. They were built around 1730 by the architect Sir John Vanbrugh. Each pavilion features a pedimented portico supported by four fluted Doric columns, with decorated friezes above. Access to the pavilions is via stone steps. The pavilions were moved further apart and modified around 1760 by architect Giovanni Battista Borra.
Local climate
The Lake 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 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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