Ice House, 60 Metres South West of Road Bridge Crossing Ice House Dene is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. Ice house.

Ice House, 60 Metres South West of Road Bridge Crossing Ice House Dene

WRENN ID
high-balcony-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1985
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NZ 418 503
Coordinates
54.84623, -1.34904
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ice house, located 60 metres south-west of the road bridge crossing Ice House Dene, dates from around 1800. It is embedded in the south bank of Ice House Dene and features a circular plan. The interior is faced with narrow hand-made red bricks, while the access tunnel is constructed of random rubble. A round-arched tunnel leads down to an egg-shaped inner chamber that has a domed roof. The tunnel is semi-ruinous, and the inner chamber is partly filled in.

Local climate

Ice House, 60 Metres South West of Road Bridge Crossing Ice House Dene sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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