Ice House 120 Metres South of Brancepeth Golf Club House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Ice house.
Ice House 120 Metres South of Brancepeth Golf Club House
- WRENN ID
- strange-groin-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- NZ 227 377
- Coordinates
- 54.73407, -1.64871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house, located 120 metres south of Brancepeth Golf Club House, is a structure from the early to mid-19th century. It is built from rubble and features a brick-lined vault. The large building is situated beneath a mound covered with trees. Access is provided by a steep flight of steps leading down to a boarded door, which is framed by rubble side walls with flat copings. The square-headed doorway, topped with a flat slab, opens into a large ice well that has a segmental brick tunnel vault.
Local climate
Ice House 120 Metres South of Brancepeth Golf Club House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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