Temple at Ngr St 2515 3421 is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Temple. 1 related planning application.
Temple at Ngr St 2515 3421
- WRENN ID
- tenth-entrance-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1950
- Type
- Temple
- Address
- Temple at Ngr St 2515 3421, Halswell Park, Goathurst, TA5 2DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 251 342
- Coordinates
- 51.10231, -3.0705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The temple, built in 1767 by Thomas Prowse for Sir Charles Halswell, commemorates Peregrine Palmer, MP for the University of Oxford, who died in 1762. It is a pseudo-peripteral temple constructed of ashlar with a slate roof, featuring pedimental end gables and rusticated side walls. The building has an architrave, frieze, and cornice all around, supported by Ionic columns—seven along each side elevation, with five engaged and two free-standing forming the supports for the portico that faces Halswell House. There are four columns across the front of the portico. The architrave door opening has a moulded ledge-hood on brackets, but the double-panelled doors were missing at the time of the last survey in March 1851. Inside, there are remains of a plaster ceiling and an ornamental cornice, along with an aedicule on the rear wall. The stylobate is suffering from damage caused by tree and shrub growth. Country Life, 9 February 1989.
Local climate
Temple at Ngr St 2515 3421 receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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