The Temple of Venus is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A Circa 1732 Temple.
The Temple of Venus
- WRENN ID
- swift-railing-foxglove
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Temple
- Period
- Circa 1732
- Address
- The Temple of Venus, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 674 366
- Coordinates
- 52.02429, -1.01899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple of Venus is a Grade I listed Palladian building, constructed around 1732 by architect William Kent. It features a central block with a pediment and an arched apsidal recess that has a coffered ceiling supported by an Ionic colonnade. The building includes quadrant wings that have three arches each, topped with ball finials on the cornice. These wings connect to rusticated stone pavilions that feature open arches and broken pediments.
Local climate
The Temple of Venus 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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