Ice House 40 Metres East of Rokeby Park is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Ice house. 1 related planning application.

Ice House 40 Metres East of Rokeby Park

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NZ 083 142
Coordinates
54.52317, -1.87247
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ice house, located 40 metres east of Rokeby Park, was likely built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from rubble with cut quoins and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a gabled shape with low eaves and measures approximately 5.5 metres square on the outside. Each gable end has a boarded door and an inner hatch that opens into the sides of a circular ice well, which is about 6 metres deep.

Local climate

Ice House 40 Metres East of Rokeby Park receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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