Ice House in Folds Wood

ICE HOUSE IN FOLDS WOOD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1151860
Date first listed:
01-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Ice House in Folds Wood
Statutory Address:
ICE HOUSE IN FOLDS WOOD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1151860
Date first listed:
01-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Ice House in Folds Wood
Statutory Address 1:
ICE HOUSE IN FOLDS WOOD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ICE HOUSE IN FOLDS WOOD

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

District:
Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Maltby
National Grid Reference:
SK 57568 90307

Details

MALTBY SANDBECK PARK SK59SE SK57619031 4/67 Ice-House in Folds Wood II Ice-house. Late C18 or early C19. For the Sandbeck Estate. Ashlar limestone dressings to brick-lined vault. Rock-strewn earth mound with doorway in north-west side flanked by rubble retaining walls (collapsed at time of resurvey). Doorway has rebated round-headed surround with remains of curved band over. Interior: brick-lined tunnel with recesses on left and right, another doorway to inner tunnel with step and ledge below hatch openings into subterranean vault. Estate papers for 1807/8 (Beastall, p116) refer to the completion of an ice house for the 6th Earl which could mean this structure or another ice-house the remains of which survive at the east end of Upper Lake. T. W. Beastall, A North Country Estate, 1974.

Listing NGR: SK5756890307

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
335942
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beastall, T W, A North Country Estate, (1974)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South Yorkshire,

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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