Worsley Hall Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1966. Ice house.

Worsley Hall Ice House

WRENN ID
dusk-bracket-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Salford
Constituency
Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1966
Type
Ice house
Address
Worsley Hall Ice House, Leigh Road
OS grid reference
SD 740 007
Coordinates
53.50284, -2.39328
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Worsley Hall Ice House is an ice house built in the 1840s for the 1st Earl of Ellesmere. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone, with brick used internally. The structure features a barrel-vaulted design that creates a mound at ground level, with access provided at one end. Externally, only a blocked door is visible, set in a segmental section of stonework that mirrors the shape of the internal vault. Although the interior was not inspected, it is reported to contain an unusual vaulted approach chamber with stone-lined doorways, five stone steps leading down, and a deep shaft that tapers downwards.

Local climate

Worsley Hall Ice House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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