Icehouse in Rear Garden of the Coachhouse, Old House Green is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Icehouse.

Icehouse in Rear Garden of the Coachhouse, Old House Green

WRENN ID
riven-grate-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Icehouse
Address
Icehouse in Rear Garden of the Coachhouse, Old House Green, Station Road, Odd Rode
OS grid reference
SJ 843 582
Coordinates
53.12095, -2.23571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The icehouse, likely built in the early 19th century, is located in the rear garden of the Coachhouse at Old House Green. It features a red sandstone facing at the entrance, while the rest is constructed from red-brown brick, all set beneath an earth mound that forms the base of a later rock garden. The entrance displays a Gothick arch made from a pair of shaped stones, topped with a naive statue of a woman with her hands clasped over her stomach.

Inside, there is a flag-roofed stone passage measuring 2 meters long, which has a groove for a former door-frame at the inner end. This leads to a 2-meter long brick passage with a pointed vault. The circular ice chamber, approximately 2.2 meters in diameter, features a brick-domed roof with a circular opening at the top, which is closed with flags and covered with earth. Additionally, the icehouse functions as a grotto that overlooks a dumb-bell shaped pool.

Local climate

Icehouse in Rear Garden of the Coachhouse, Old House Green receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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