TEMPLE AT TEMPLE POOL, UPTON HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024178
Date first listed:: 30-May-1967
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE AT TEMPLE POOL, UPTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TEMPLE AT TEMPLE POOL, UPTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024178
Date first listed:: 30-May-1967
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE AT TEMPLE POOL, UPTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TEMPLE AT TEMPLE POOL, UPTON HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TEMPLE AT TEMPLE POOL, UPTON HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ratley and Upton
National Grid Reference:: SP 37408 44584

Details

RATLEY AND UPTON UPTON SP34SE 5/137 Temple at Temple Pool, Upton 30/05/67 House (Formerly listed as Temple at Temple Pool)

- II

Garden temple. c.1745. Attributed to Sanderson Miller. Ironstone ashlar with dressings and front of grey limestone ashlar. Tile roof with parapet. Single storey. 3-window range. Classical style. Four steps up to full width portico of single and 2 pairs of alternated Tuscan columns, entablature and steep central pediment. Plain railings to sides. Main block has angle pilasters and rusticated alternating quoins. Central glazed double-leaf doors with overlight and sashes all have stone lintels. Rear of 2 storeys due to steeply-sloping site. Upper part has rusticated quoins. Central sash, with small gablet above. Lower part has blocked round-archway. Interior noted as having classical moulded dado rail and cornice. Prominent position in the centre of the dam at the end of the Temple Pool. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.439; G. Jackson-Stops; Upton House, Warwickshire (National Trust Guide) p.27; Upton House, Warwickshire Architectural Review, Vol LXIX, April 1931, p.126).

Listing NGR: SP3740844584

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 306248
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson Stops, G, Upton House Warwickshire27
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 439
'Architectural Review' in Architectural Review, , Vol. 69, (1931), 126
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.