Ice House to West of Park House
ICE HOUSE TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390954
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House to West of Park House
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390954
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House to West of Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICE HOUSE TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
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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 TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Moggerhanger
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13456 48663
Details
348/0/10008
MOGGERHANGER,
MOGGERHANGER PARK,
Ice House to west of Park House
13.01.04
GV
II
Ice house. Probably late-C18/early-C19, when Moggerhanger House was re-modelled by Sir John Soane and the grounds improved by Humphry Repton. The structure is covered by an earth mound, with the entrance exposed on the north side. Entrance is coursed ashlar and rubble sandstone. Central section approx. 2m high with cornice and arched opening with voussoirs, within which a recessed door. Stone appears to have been reused, some blocks have raised ashlar faces. Flanking the entrance, a pair of lower wings in coursed rubble stone with flat stone copings, that slope to ground at left side and to half height at right side.
INTERIOR: Entrance passage is barrel-vaulted in coursed rubble limestone, short return walls with no door, beyond which a shorter passage with lower barrel-vaulted ceiling, then second short return walls with no door to ice chamber. Ice chamber is semi-circular in plan. Curved lower walls are Flemish bond brick; shallow saucer-dome ceiling is laid with brick headers, arranged in a spiral fashion. Filled with water at time of inspection (January 2003).
HISTORY: The ice house is approx. 50m to the west of Moggerhanger (listed as Park House, Grade I) re-modelled by Sir John Soane in 1790-97 for Godfrey Thornton, a director of the Bank of England and 1806-12 for Thornton's son, Stephen.
SOURCES: English Heritage Historic Parks and Gardens file GD 3088 RUP.
Ptolemy Dean. Sir John Soane and the Country Estate. 1999.
Late-C18/Early-C19 ice house with a handsome stone entrance and well-crafted brick domed ice chamber, that has group value with the Grade I Park House (Moggerhanger), remodelled by Sir John Soane (to whom the ice house has been attributed), the Grade II Registered Moggerhanger Park, and the Grade II Stables, Kitchen Garden Walls and Outbuildings.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ptolemy, D, Sir John Soane and the Country Estate, (1999)
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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