Icehouse in Yard at Rear of Wildersmoor is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Icehouse.
Icehouse in Yard at Rear of Wildersmoor
- WRENN ID
- tangled-steel-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- Icehouse in Yard at Rear of Wildersmoor, Higher Lane, Lymm
- OS grid reference
- SJ 697 862
- Coordinates
- 53.3725, -2.45636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse located in the yard at the rear of Wildersmoor is an early 19th-century structure made of brick. It features a barrel-vaulted subterranean chamber that measures approximately 3.5 meters by 2 meters in plan. Access to the chamber is provided through a tapered circular opening at the top of the vault. The main house, Wildersmoor, has been altered and divided into two separate dwellings, but it is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Icehouse in Yard at Rear of Wildersmoor sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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