The Temple of Diana at Weston Park seen from the north

The Temple's north front is wholly different to the facade on the south side. The building is Janus-like since when first built to James Paine's designs in the late 1760s the building was seen on both sides at different stages of the main carriage drive to the House. Having very different fronts meant that this single garden building was in fact perceived by the visitor as two differnt structures. This north elevation, built from stone quarried in the park, ultimately derives from Palladio's Venetian churches in having the giant pediment divided by the central section. A garden pavilion with a similar front was designed by William Kent at Euston Park in Suffolk. At Weston, this front contains a ground floor circular tearoom in the canted projection, with a bedroom above. The tearoom was itended as the space in which guests could partake of tea whilst admiring the exotic birds in the netted enclosures of the menagerie on the lawns outside.