ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311560
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:: ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311560
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:: ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woburn
National Grid Reference:: SP 96368 31893

Details

SP 9632-9732 WOBURN WOBURN PARK 3/181 23.1.61 Ice House approximately 500 m SSE of Basin Bridge - II Ice house. Begun 1788 by Henry Holland, for Francis 5th Duke of Bedford. Externally of coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings, internally of brick. Raised on a slight mound, consists of circular domed structure half buried in ground, with single-storeyed circular ornamental exterior structure. Gothick style. Embattled parapet. 2-stage buttresses. Ornamental blind windows, all pointed-arched single-lights under square heads. Pointed-arched doorway to N with plank door. This gives onto entrance tunnel which originally probably contained 2 airlock doors. This tunnel opens approximately halfway up inner chamber. 2 trapdoors to domed roof, which is covered with tiles, bitumen and earth. Industrial Archaeology in Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire County Council, 1967, p. 22.

Listing NGR: SP9636831893

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 38277
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Industrial Archaeology in Bedfordshire, (1967), 22
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,

Legal

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