Hopwood Hall Icehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. Icehouse.

Hopwood Hall Icehouse

WRENN ID
narrow-pier-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1987
Type
Icehouse
Address
Hopwood Hall Icehouse, Rochdale Road
OS grid reference
SD 881 083
Coordinates
53.57182, -2.18073
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Hopwood Hall Icehouse is a structure dating from around 1830, located on the north-west side of Middleton Rochdale Road. It is built of brick and features a circular chamber with a diameter of 4 metres and a considerable depth. Originally, the chamber was covered by a hemispherical brick vault, which has since been lost. Adjacent to one side of the main chamber are the remains of a brick entrance chamber.

Local climate

Hopwood Hall Icehouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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