Icehouse Circa 20 Yards North East of the Stable Block is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. A C19 Icehouse.
Icehouse Circa 20 Yards North East of the Stable Block
- WRENN ID
- bitter-portal-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- SJ 869 730
- Coordinates
- 53.25396, -2.19656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This icehouse, dating from the 19th century, is located approximately 20 yards northeast of the stable block in Henbury Park. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brick and features a corridor leading to a circular sunken chamber at the end. The entrance front has a central semi-circular archway with a 20th-century wrought iron gate, flanked by short retaining walls with a brick overthrow. Inside, the corridor is barrel-vaulted and has a stone flag floor. The circular ice chamber has a domed roof and a dished floor with a circular drain at the center.
Local climate
Icehouse Circa 20 Yards North East of the Stable Block sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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