Ice House Approximately 500 Metres South South East of Basin Bridge
ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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