Icehouse at Broadbottom Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1999. Ice house.
Icehouse at Broadbottom Hall
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gateway-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1999
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Icehouse at Broadbottom Hall, Bostock Road, SK14 6AH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 994 936
- Coordinates
- 53.43972, -2.00939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse at Broadbottom Hall is a late 18th century or early 19th century structure. It is an earth-covered building with its entrance located on the north side, featuring a short flight of stone steps flanked by low walls. There is a boarded entrance door set beneath a stone semicircular arch. This door opens onto another flight of steps that leads into the interior, which is designed with a cross barrel vault made of coursed sandstone that rises from low side walls. The icehouse is situated close to Broadbottom Hall, with which it forms a group.
Local climate
Icehouse at Broadbottom Hall 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 83% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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