Ice House Approximately 150 Metres To South West Of Wortley Hall

The ice house, located approximately 150 metres to the south-west of Wortley Hall, dates from the early to mid-19th century and was built for the Wortley Hall estate. It is constructed of red brick and ashlar sandstone, featuring an earth-covered mound set in a bank to the north-east of an adjacent fish pond. The structure is topped by a square brick upstand with heavy coping that has hinge-pins for hatches, which have since been removed. The top of the ice house has a rebated round hole. To the south, there is an ashlar-coped feeder channel that allows ice to be raked off the fish pond into the side of the subterranean structure, which was full of debris at the time of the last survey. This ice house is an unusual and well-preserved example from its period.