Ice House at the Mulberries
ICE HOUSE AT THE MULBERRIES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392016
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House at the Mulberries
- Statutory Address:
- ICE HOUSE AT THE MULBERRIES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392016
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Ice House at the Mulberries
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICE HOUSE AT THE MULBERRIES
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 THE MULBERRIES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rodmell
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 42074 06203
Details
RODMELL
946/0/10045 Ice House at The Mulberries 08-JUN-06
II Ice house. Early to mid C19 date. MATERIALS: Built of clunch and brick with stone steps. PLAN: A rectangular structure about 7 metres by 2.8 metres with the roof an overall height of 2.1 metres with entrance facing south east. EXTERIOR: The structure is underground approached down a flight of 12 stone steps. There is a cambered entrance and the walls are built of chalk clunch coursed rubble with a barrel-vaulted brick roof of headers. INTERIOR: The floor has brick paving and no drain was visible. In the north western wall is a bricked up opening which is 0.89 metres wide and 1.09 metres above the floor. There are three circular brick apertures in the roof. The central one, 430mm. in diameter appears to be original and the other two were cut later. HISTORY: The ice house is shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey map. It is thought to have been built for Rodmell Place, a large manor house demolished some time between 1835 and 1873. The source of the ice is thought to have been a pond located about 250 metres away from the ice house. STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE: An intact example of an early to mid C19 icehouse, of a rectangular plan which is much rarer in Sussex than the circular domed type. It is also one of the only surviving structures associated with Rodmell Place, one of the two ancient manors of Rodmell, which was demolished in the mid C19. SOURCES: Sylvia P Beaumon and Susan Roaf "The Icehouses of Britain".1990 Ps 431-432. "Victoria County History. Volume VII." 1940 Ps 69-71.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of : Volume VII, (1940), 69-71
Beamon, S P, Roaf, S, The Ice-Houses of Britain, (1990), 431-432
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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