Island Temple, West Wycombe Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Temple.
Island Temple, West Wycombe Park
- WRENN ID
- waiting-gravel-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Temple
- OS grid reference
- SU 831 944
- Coordinates
- 51.64272, -0.79956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Island Temple in West Wycombe Park is a Grade II* listed building, constructed between 1778 and 1780 by Nicholas Revett. It is a single-storey rectangular structure featuring a semi-circular loggia at the east end. The building is rendered in cement and has a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. The columns and pilasters are adorned with modified Tower of the Winds capitals, supporting an entablature with a dentil cornice. The east elevation includes a central doorway, which is two-thirds glazed, flanked by a pair of sash windows, all featuring glazing bars. The west end of the building is topped with a pediment.
Local climate
Island Temple, West Wycombe Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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