Ice House Approximately 150 Metres To South West Of Wortley Hall

WORTLEY WORTLEY PARK SK39NW Ice-house approximately 4/136 150 metres to south-west of Wortley Hall II Ice-house. Early-mid C19. For the Wortley Hall estate. Red brick and ashlar sandstone. Earth-covered mound set in bank to north-east of adjacent fish pond and crowned by square brick upstand with heavy coping having hinge-pins for hatches (now removed), top of ice-house pierced by rebated round hole. To the south, an ashlar- coped feeder channel allows ice to be raked off the fish pond into the side of the subterranean structure which at time of resurvey was full of debris. An unusual and well-preserved example of this period.

Listing NGR: SK3116799344