Ice House at Singleton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 2003. Icehouse. 1 related planning application.
Ice House at Singleton Hall
- WRENN ID
- eastward-iron-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 2003
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- Ice House at Singleton Hall, Lodge Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 379 391
- Coordinates
- 53.84483, -2.94453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ice House at Singleton Hall is a structure likely built in the 1870s. It is made of red brick and is covered by an earth mound, with its entrance visible on the north side. This entrance features steps between battered retaining walls that lead down to an outer door. The door has a rectangular opening set beneath a segmental brick arch, with a shallow brick arch above that projects forward and spans between the retaining walls.
Inside, the entrance passage has a shallow segmental-arched roof, and the side walls are battered inwards at their bases. Brick piers support the frame of the inner door, which is currently missing. The inner part of the passage floor is paved with brick. The main chamber has a circular plan with a shallow saucer-domed roof and walls that slope inwards at the base. The floor here is also made of brick and features a cast-iron grid leading to a drain.
Historically, this icehouse is situated near an ornamental pond in the gardens of Singleton Hall, which was completed in 1873 for Thomas Horrocks Miller, the son of a notable industrialist from Preston.
Local climate
Ice House at Singleton Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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