Icehouse Approximately 150 Metres North East of Wroxton College

ICEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES NORTH EAST OF WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1369626
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1988
Statutory Address:
ICEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES NORTH EAST OF WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1369626
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1988
Statutory Address 1:
ICEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES NORTH EAST OF WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
ICEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES NORTH EAST OF WROXTON COLLEGE, DARK LANE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Wroxton
National Grid Reference:
SP4184341694

Details

SP 4040-4140
10/203

WROXTON
DARK LANE
(South side)
Icehouse approx. 150m NE of Wroxton College

II*

Icehouse. Early C18 restored 1980. Probably designed by Tilleman Bobart.
Ironstone ashlar covered by a mound of soil. Entrance passage and steps down.
Icehouse measures 15' from eye to top of soakaway with a further 4'6" to earth
base. Approximately 11' circumference.
(Wroxton Abbey guidebook published by Wroxton College, 1982, plO and 13 (plan))

Listing NGR: SP4184341694

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Sources

Books and journals
Wroxton Abbey Guidebook, (1982), 10 AND 13

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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Ordnance survey map of Icehouse Approximately 150 Metres North East of Wroxton College

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