Althorp, Garden Temple is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1984. Summer-house.

Althorp, Garden Temple

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Constituency
Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 November 1984
Type
Summer-house
OS grid reference
SP 683 655
Coordinates
52.2838, -0.99957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Althorp garden temple is a summer-house built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of timber and features a lead roof. The structure has an open front supported by two reeded wooden columns and two similar pilasters with Doric capitals, which hold up an entablature topped with a pediment. The rear of the building is made of plain brick. Inside, there is a fielded panelled dado with pilasters on the back wall. This garden temple was relocated from the gardens of Admiralty House by the fifth Earl Spencer.

Local climate

Althorp, Garden Temple sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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