Rococo Temple, Amisfield Park is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1977. Temple folly.
Rococo Temple, Amisfield Park
- WRENN ID
- high-groin-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1977
- Type
- Temple folly
- OS grid reference
- NT 530 743
- Coordinates
- 55.96011, -2.75309
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Rococo Temple in Amisfield Park is a mid-18th century folly, likely designed by Isaac Ware. It features a Tetrastyle Roman Doric design with four columns that have rock-faced banding and eroded Rococo ornamentation on the pediment. The main body of the building is constructed from conglomerate ashlar, while the entablature is made of irregularly alternating red and yellow sandstones. Each side elevation has two arched window openings, with the forward one being blind, and they display alternating rock-faced rustication and grotesque-headed keystones. The rear elevation is plain, featuring two window openings and a cellar entrance below. The internal arches of the doorway and windows at the rear of the portico have collapsed. There is a plain fireplace and flue on the rear wall. The temple is currently roofless and in poor condition.
Local climate
Rococo Temple, Amisfield Park receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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