Ice House Approximately 150 Metres South West of Cirencester Park Mansion
ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CIRENCESTER PARK MANSION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1298720
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1993
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CIRENCESTER PARK MANSION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1298720
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1993
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CIRENCESTER PARK MANSION
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CIRENCESTER PARK MANSION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cirencester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0189901846
Details
CIRENCESTER
SP0101 CIRENCESTER PARK
578-1/5/346 Ice house approximately 150m SW of
Cirencester Park Mansion
GV II*
Also known as: Grismond's Tower Cirencester Park.
Shown on OS map as Grismond's Tower. Ice house. C18.
Vermiculated and rock-faced limestone with limestone ashlar
dressings to surround to entrance, stone and brick tunnel,
brick ice well. Entrance facing NNE has round-headed arch of
rock-faced stone with ashlar impost blocks supported on squat
ashlar piers to centre of screen wall of vermiculated stone
with ashlar plinth curving forwards to left and right and
terminated by squat ashlar piers with coping, and curving
upwards to centre to meet coped parapet over entrance arch.
C20 plank door in opening with segmental-arched head in deep
recess lined with rock-faced stone behind entrance arch.
Vaulted tunnel; ice well approximately 3m diameter and 6m deep
of ovoid form with brickwork laid in Flemish bond.
(Beecham KJ: History of Cirencester and the Roman City
Corinium: 1887-: P.193; Glos. RO: Locke G: The Ice House,
Cirencester Estate (MS notes): CMS 83; EH Gardens Register:
Gloucestershire: Grade I: London: 1986-).
Listing NGR: SP0189901846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365108
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beecham, K J, History of Cirencester and the Roman City of Corinium, (1887), 193
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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