Ice House at Thorpe Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Ice house.
Ice House at Thorpe Hall
- WRENN ID
- pale-stronghold-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at Thorpe Hall, Rudston
- OS grid reference
- TA 110 677
- Coordinates
- 54.09374, -0.3042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at Thorpe Hall is an 18th-century structure, with an entrance passage added in the 19th century. It is built of brick with stone dressings and features a domical shape, measuring about 4 metres in diameter, constructed entirely in header brickwork and covered with soil. The entrance includes a porch with a round-headed boarded door set in a plain brick surround, leading to an earth-covered tunnel that connects to the main structure, which has a low coped parapet.
Local climate
Ice House at Thorpe Hall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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