ICE HOUSE 250 METRES NORTH OF HIMLEY HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232601
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: ICE HOUSE 250 METRES NORTH OF HIMLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: ICE HOUSE 250 METRES NORTH OF HIMLEY HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232601
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: ICE HOUSE 250 METRES NORTH OF HIMLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ICE HOUSE 250 METRES NORTH OF HIMLEY HALL

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:: ICE HOUSE 250 METRES NORTH OF HIMLEY HALL

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: South Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Himley
National Grid Reference:: SO 88887 91844

Details

HIMLEY HIMLEY PARK SO 89 SE 1576-/5/10001 Ice House 250 metres north of Himley Hall II Ice House. Early C19. Coursed squared red sandstone blocks, with flat coping stones to walling flanking the entrance, now beneath overgrown earth mound. Circular plan with central access passage,approached through an outer entrance with flanking raked retaining walls,with flat sandstone copings. Short vaulted access passage, ending at access doorway to ice chamber with iron-barred door. Circular ice chamber with curved floor cut into bedrock, 5 metres or more in diameter, with a shallow domed roof The roof dome and the chamber walling above bedrock level are of regularly. coursed sandstone blocks. The dome is penetrated by a single ice chute.The ice house was built to the west of ornamental lakes within the parkland of Himley Hall, and to the north of the hall itself

Listing NGR: SO8888791844

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

Legacy System number:: 407970
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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