Summer house in Blake Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Summer house.
Summer house in Blake Gardens
- WRENN ID
- high-glass-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- Summer house
- Address
- Summer house in Blake Gardens, Bridgwater
- OS grid reference
- ST 300 369
- Coordinates
- 51.12773, -3.00055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summer house in Blake Gardens is a Grade II listed structure, primarily built from local Wemdon sandstone rubble and brick, with some limestone rubble included. It features a shallow, domed concrete roof, although the original shape of the roof is not known.
The building has a circular plan with a diameter of approximately 3 meters and is supported by seven projecting buttresses. The exterior walls are divided into bays by substantial brick buttresses, which incorporate reused bricks from the 17th and 18th centuries. The upper sections of the buttresses are chamfered, topped with two courses of brick and a dentil cornice.
On the west side, there is an entrance with a pointed-arched head formed by alternate raised bricks, flanked by crudely fashioned single-light windows with pointed heads. The south side features two lancet-style windows positioned close to the ground, with a matching opening on the north side. There is a second entrance roughly opposite the west entrance, slightly offset to the north, but this has been blocked.
Inside, the summer house has shallow fixed curved seats on either side of the entrances, and the ceiling is vaulted.
Local climate
Summer house in Blake Gardens receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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