Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1991. Ice house.
Ice House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-footing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1991
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House, Towers Road, Poynton with Worth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 929 842
- Coordinates
- 53.35537, -2.10743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house, built around 1758, features a 19th-century ante-chamber. It is primarily constructed of local brick, while the ante-chamber is made of coursed sandstone. The main chamber has a double-skin wall with a drain that contains a ceramic pipe and an opening at the top. The entrance passage is badly damaged and has a largely destroyed barrel vault, also double-skin, leading to an elliptically-arched entrance into the main chamber. The ante-chamber connects to the entrance passage at an angle of almost 90 degrees and is clearly a later addition. It seems to have been used for food preparation before items were stored in the ice house, which is an unusual feature. The ante-chamber has a barrel vault, preparation benches on each side, a separate drain, and two wall recesses with dressed surrounds.
Local climate
Ice House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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