Ice House at Wycombe Abbey
ICE HOUSE AT WYCOMBE ABBEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387291
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House at Wycombe Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE AT WYCOMBE ABBEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387291
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House at Wycombe Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICE HOUSE AT WYCOMBE ABBEY
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.
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 AT WYCOMBE ABBEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86551 92356
Details
SU 8692 HIGH WYCOMBE
5/10005 Ice House at
Wycombe Abbey
II
Ice house with screen wall. Ice house probably 1764 by Capability Brown for the Earl of Shelburne; screen wall probably c1804 by James Wyatt for Lord Carrington. Earth-covered brick-built ice house with screen wall of flint with Denner Hill stone centrepiece. Central four-centre-arched entrance, bricked up and covered by board door of c1985; archway and flanking piers of stone with galleted joints, the piers having chamfered plinths and capstones; flint parapet over door with chamfered stone off-set and coping. Flanking walls, slightly curved, have shallow, pointed-arched niches and end-piers with pyramidal finials, all in flint, right-hand pier missing upper part. The ice house is said to have a brick-lined tunnel leading to a chamber with a domed vault, the pit filled in with chalk. A mid-C18 ice house with an unusual and attractive early-C19 screen wall.
Source: K A Walpole, From one generation to another (Cox & Wyman), p.4. Sylvia P Beaumont & Susan Poaf, The ice-houses of Britain, 1990, p.211 -212.
Listing NGR: SU8655192356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475236
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walpole, K A, From One Generation to Another, (), 4
Beamon, S P, Roaf, S, The Ice-Houses of Britain, (1990), 211-212
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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