Ice House at
ICE HOUSE AT, 1, BELVEDERE DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061359
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House at
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE AT, 1, BELVEDERE DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061359
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House at
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICE HOUSE AT, 1, BELVEDERE DRIVE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE AT, 1, BELVEDERE DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Merton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24276 71052
Details
1329/0/10048 BELVEDERE DRIVE
08-JUL-02 1
Ice House at
GV II
Ice house. Built probably after 1748 but before 1834. Cup and dome type. Comprises large dome built of red brick, externally covered in render with a cambered stock brick entrance, early C19 or later, with bricks on end forming castellation. The interior has a ventilation hole at the summit. Base of ice chamber not visible at time of survey. The north east side of the dome has been replaced in the early C20 by a vertical wall. The original entrance passage was demolished.
HISTORY: This ice house was built for Belvedere House. The original house was a Palladian style house of c1720 for Sir Theodore Janssen. The estate was bought by a Mrs Martha Rush in 1748, followed by her son and passed to Sir William Beaumaris Rush in 1783 who demolished the c1720 house and replaced it. In 1834 the property was sold to James Courthope Peach. A mound at the foot of a lake is shown in this position in the 1870s Ordnance Survey map. As there are no signs of an ice house on Rocque's map of 1746 the structure would appear to date from the period between 1748 and 1834, probably after 1783 as Sir William Rush enlarged both house and grounds. After 1900, when Belvedere House was demolished and the grounds sold for building, the majority of the structure was situated in the grounds of no 1 Belvedere Drive and a small part in the grounds of no 3. At some time in the early C20 that part belonging to no 3 was demolished and a vertical wall replaced the curved wall of the dome to the north east.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489586
- 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.
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