Icehouse North East of Read Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Icehouse.
Icehouse North East of Read Hall
- WRENN ID
- vast-wattle-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- SD 758 349
- Coordinates
- 53.81039, -2.36846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse north-east of Read Hall is a 19th-century structure built of brick. It has a circular plan that tapers towards the bottom and features a domed top. The icehouse is covered by an earth mound, with sandstone rubble retaining walls on the south side and a square entrance hole on the north side.
Local climate
Icehouse North East of Read Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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