Summer House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Summer house.
Summer House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-fireplace-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Summer house
- Address
- Summer House, Aske
- OS grid reference
- NZ 176 033
- Coordinates
- 54.42563, -1.72922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House is a mid to late 18th-century structure, likely built for Sir Lawrence Dundas. It is constructed from ashlar and coursed dressed sandstone and is designed as a distyle prostyle temple. The front elevation features two Roman Doric columns, which are flanked by two matching half-columns. These support an Ionic entablature and cornice, with a blocking above that includes a blind bas relief balustrade. The rear and sides are made of coursed dressed stone, with the exception of an ashlar pilaster, an eaves band, and flat coping on the parapet. Inside, the walls are also ashlar, and the rear wall contains a shell niche in front of which is a wooden seat with heart-shaped legs. In front of the summer house, there are two ashlar steps with moulded nosings.
Local climate
Summer House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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